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Kent Conrad

(1948) Politician United States

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Kent Conrad is a politician from the United States, best known for Kintyre North Dakota 1904-2004.

Quick Facts About Kent Conrad

Born: March 12, 1948
Nationality: United States
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Kintyre North Dakota 1904-2004

About Kent Conrad

Gaylord Kent Conrad is a former American politician who was a United States senator from North Dakota. He is a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he served as chairman or ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee for 12 years.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kent Conrad

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Cancer

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The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Cost

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Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more…

America

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Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not…

America

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The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for…

American people

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The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

American

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I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain…

Buying

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Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state…

Dakota

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Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Access

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We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the…

Because

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Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of…

Care

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When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand…

American

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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Filibuster

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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…

Bush

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The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve…

Affordability

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It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of…

Children

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Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

Agreement

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One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and…

Attention

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Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Consequence

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Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

Needs

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Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Deficit

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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…

Ace

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America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes…

America

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We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

Just live

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