Kent Conrad
Kent Conrad
Gaylord Kent Conradis a former United States Senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, the North Dakota affiliate of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he served as chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee for twelve years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Certainly, you want to rebuild, ... But we need to build smartly so that we have a better line of defense the next time Mother Nature comes calling. That's what we did in Grand Forks. We are now better protected.
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I believe President Bush's campaign promises are unraveling, ... He claimed we could afford his massive tax cut, a major defense buildup, more money for education, while paying down the debt and protecting Social Security and Medicare. He was wrong.
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I don't think giving enemy combatants access to the federal court system is a precedent we want to set,
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You think of what could be done here, ... Any agent of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee -- and they could designate anybody as an agent -- could go into IRS facilities anywhere in the country and get your tax returns.
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It is stunning in terms of lack of fiscal responsibility.
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It is unacceptable to give this industry special protection -- protection that has never been granted any other industry in our history.
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It's clear to me that the majority of people I represent and the majority of the American people support his nomination.
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It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,
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It just jumps out at you that this notion hasn't worked out in the real world. And if it did work out, maybe we should eliminate all the taxes and balance the budget.
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It's almost as if words have lost their meaning,
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It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.
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When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
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The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.