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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My own view is that we ought to protect the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, then, with what is left, have significant tax cuts.
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As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else.
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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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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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People are acting like this $5.6 trillion surplus is etched in stone. It's not. It's etched in quicksand.
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I think it is unlikely, absent some new information, some bombshell that comes up in the process, that I would support a filibuster.
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There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.
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While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities.
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When I went to Roosevelt grade school in Bismark, North Dakota, if you reduced spending by $39 and you reduced your income by $70, you were deeper in the hole, ... You've added to the deficit. You haven't reduced it.
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The president's plan will give you a little boost and then look straight down, ... In fact, past 2004 it's worse than doing nothing.
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Who would have thought that when we began this week, we would have ended in this way?
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The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.
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You don't need some whole new unfettered access to individual tax returns of people or of companies in order to figure out how the IRS is spending its money,
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What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.