Senate Proceeding on Apr 29th, 2009 :: 7:36:35 to 7:42:40
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Kent Conrad: appeared in knoxville "new sentinel," last year. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. alexander: i thank the president and i thank the chairman of the budget committee for the i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from north mr. conrad: mr. president, i

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Speech By: Kent Conrad

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Kent Conrad: really am serious weapon i say -- when i s he is a valuable member of the budget committee. he has made a real contribution and we thank him for it. mr. president, we now have exhausted all of the speakers th have given us notice on both sid. we're awaiting word on wh orot we are can go to

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Kent Conrad: i'm hopeful we can go to a vote soon. but we'll need to hear from the leadership on both when that might be possible. mr. president, i think we've had a today. on the question of the

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Kent Conrad: i feel strongly that this is a responsible approach adopting the president's clear priorities of red foreign excellence in education, providing for major health care reform, all the while providing

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Kent Conrad: more than $750 billion of american people focused on middle-class taxpayers. and dramatically, reducing it by more than two-thirds in dollar terms by more than three quarters as a people of gross domestic product.

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Kent Conrad: will stabilize growth of the debt. and, again, i am swift to say, mu terms of long-term deficit and debt reduction. i believe have a special process for intime and tax reform. as i've noted throughout this debate for the long term we're

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Kent Conrad: on an unsustainable course in this country. that's a situation that is not the keation of president obama. the creation of president obama. that is a situation of the previous administration that inher rid inherited massive surpluses and turned them into massive debts.

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Kent Conrad: that's a fact. there is no way to change that fact. the previous administration left this country in the deepest rescission since the great depression. and of course the deficit has skyrocketed as a result. that is not the fault of the president who has been in office for 100 days. he inherited this mess. he's expected to clean it up.

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Kent Conrad: and he has taken aggressive, vigorous action, to move us in the right direction. and the american people are responding. the there's been a tripling of the percentage of people in this country that believe we are now on the just in the 100 days of this

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Kent Conrad: presidency. i was the second senator to endorse senator obama. the first senator to endorse him was his colleague from illinois, senator durbin. i was the second senator to endorse him. i've never endorsed in a presidential primary before. i did it because i saw something exceptiol in

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Kent Conrad: i saw if him somebody that was not only very smart but extraordinarily calm; somebody who has the right temperament to deal with the crisis that president confronts. i must say i have been so proud to have been an early supporter

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Kent Conrad: of this president. because i the promise that he made to the american people to turn us in a new and better direction. he can." that was the motto i had when i first senate in 1986.

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Kent Conrad: when he found out, maybe he owes me royalties and i said, no, you don't owe me a thing. i am so pleased that he is the president of the united states at this moment in time. he has the right background, the right temperament, the right intelligence, the right character, to be our leader at

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Kent Conrad: this extraordinary time of challenge. and so while our budget is quite different than his because we had $2 trillion less in revenue to write the budget, because of the changing forecast, because of the nature of down t able, we were able to preserve

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Kent Conrad: his key priorities and i'm proud of it. mr. president, member, senator gregg, is here and perhaps he can as to whether or not there are additional speakers or when we

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Kent Conrad: might be prepared to vote. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. conrad: the presiding officer: the

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Kent Conrad: senator mr. conrad: i suggest the vote the presiding officer: the senate is in a mr. conrad: i ask unanimous consent the ca be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. conrad: i'd ask the

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Kent Conrad: senator, would he like