List of Kent Conrad Quotes

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!

The Reality Is No One Knows How Much It Will Cost Us To Wage War With Iraq.

So I Put That All Together And I Find It Makes It Hard To Justify A Filibuster.

Certainly Social Security Needs To Be Reformed.

Governments Can Inflate Their Way Out Of Debt, But That Has Consequences, Doesn't It?

Highway Spending, Which I Think Most Everybody Says Is Badly Needed In This Country, Creates American Jobs, And Also Makes America More Competitive.

I Would Do Away With Super Pacs. I Think It's A Cancer.

America Was Founded On Majority Rule, Not Supermajority Rule. Somehow, Over The Years, This Has Morphed Into Supermajority Rule, And That Changes Things.

I've Had Lengthy Discussions With European Farm Leaders. It Is Clear They Have An Agricultural Strategy To Support Their Producers And Gain Dominance In World Agricultural Trade. They're Gaining Markets The Old-fashioned Way - They're Buying Them.

We've Got To Have Major Health Care Reform Because That Is The 800-pound Gorilla. That Is The Thing That Can Swamp The Boat Fiscally For The United States.

Negotiating Sugar Trade In Bilateral Free Trade Agreements Is A Recipe For Disaster For The U.s. Sugar Industry, And It Is Unnecessary.

The Only Possible Role That I Can See For Reconciliation Would Be To Make Modest Changes In The Major Package To Improve Affordability, To Deal With What Share Of Medicaid Expansion The Federal Government Pays, Those Kinds Of Issues, Which Is The Traditional Role For Reconciliation In Health Care.