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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His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without using the Medicare trust fund,
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I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds,
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When you put those together, what you find is that the invasion of the trust funds is far more serious than has been reported so far, far more serious,
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In six short months, this administration, after advocating a tax cut that was too large and after putting belief in a 10-year estimate of revenue, have put us in the bad old days of raiding every trust fund in sight,
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By using Social Security trust fund dollars to pay for tax cuts and other government spending, the administration significantly understates the true fiscal imbalance of the country.
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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.