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
continuing fact fight forward north people recently save serve team together worked
The fact is, we have worked together effectively as a team for North Dakota, most recently in the fight to save our bases, ... I look forward to continuing to work together to serve the people of our state.
urged
Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.
problem reality
The reality here is we've got a problem here and it's a big problem.
cutting purpose republican
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!
war reality iraq
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
together filibuster justify
So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
needs social security
Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
government way debt
Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
country jobs thinking
Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
cancer thinking pacs
I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
majority-rule america years
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
jobs wind dollars
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.