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Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Needs
Security
Social
Social Security
Reformed
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I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Cancer
Pacs
Thinking
Super
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Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Deficit
Social Security
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We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Live For Today
Should
Today
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow Live
Prepare
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The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
War
Iraq
Reality
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Filibuster
Justify
Together
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Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Government
Debt
Way
Consequences
Governments
Inflate
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Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Education
Computers
Society
Access
Computer
Internet
Needs
Our Society
Need
Basic
Become
Our
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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.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Agreement
Recipes
Sugar
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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.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Defense
Social Security
Touch
People Security American
American People
Budget
People Say
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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 competitive.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Jobs
American Jobs
Country
Spending
Thinking
America More Country
Badly
Competitive
Creates
Highway
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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 things.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
America
Majority
Majority Rule
Years
Founded
Somehow
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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 boat fiscally for the United States.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Boat
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Reform
Swamps
United States
Fiscally
Gorilla
Swamp
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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 people to stand up and tell the truth.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
People
President
Seriousness
Telling The Truth
Time Truth People
Condition
American People
Fiscal
Truth Time People
Stand Up
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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 reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Cutting
Deficit
Purpose
Reconciliation
Reduction
Republican
Tax Cuts
Tax
Bush
Bush Tax Cuts
Cuts
Deficit Reduction
Republicans
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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 significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Health
Care
Comprehensive
Deficit
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Kind
Legislation
Reconciliation
Reduction
Reform
Significant
Used
Work Health Care
Deficit Reduction
Designed
Pass
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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.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Electric
Hardware
States
Ace
Billion
Club
Cooperative
Large
Rural
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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 could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Attention
Founding
Senate
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Interests
Smaller
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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 the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
America
Dependence
Excellence
Long
Most Powerful
Powerful
Reducing
Education Best Future
Critically
Economic Future
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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 fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Children
Dakota
Developing
Diets
Eating
Mean
Plenty
Vegetables
Ensuring
Fresh
Fruits
Habits
North
Provide
Vital
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Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Voted
Bush
Bush Tax Cuts
Cuts
Partisan
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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 dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Buying
Clear
Dominance
Leader
Lengthy
Producers
Strategy
Support
World
Agricultural
Discussions
Farm
Gain
Leaders
Old-Fashioned Way
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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 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.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Dakota
Dollars
Enormous
Force
Investment
Millions
North Dakota
Prairie
Wind
Anybody
Draw
Inexhaustible
Millions Of Dollars
North
Potential
Stood
Supply
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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, 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.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Government
Expansion
Federal Government
Health Care
Issues
Medicaid
Modest
Reconciliation
Share
Traditional
Would Be
Health Government Care
Federal
Improve
Major
Package
Pays
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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 that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution.
Kent Conrad / Former United States Senator
Borrowing
Cents
Fortunate
Among
Contribute
Dollar
Every American
Spend
Longer
Require
Solution
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