Kent Conrad: “I have the floor now, Senator. Let's be factual here. That chart is a complete concoction. That is all there is to it.…”

“I have the floor now, Senator. Let's be factual here. That chart is a complete concoction. That is all there is to it. That takes amendments that were offered for 1 year, multiplies them by 5, doesn't count the offsets. In the budget resolution, we offset our amendments. We paid for them. That is an offset. When you pay for things around here, that is an offset. I know that is a new idea around here, but that is what we are offering in our amendment, pay-go. We say, you can have new tax cuts. The Senator from Iowa says, we are going to kill all the tax cuts. No, we are saying if you want more tax cuts, you have to pay for it. If you want more spending, you have to pay for it. That is what pay-go is about. That is what Democrats have offered in this fight. We have offered the pay-go amendment. It used to be in place. We used to have it. We used to have that authority. We used to have that budget discipline. If you want to have new tax cuts, pay for them. If you want new spending, pay for it. In addition to the fact that I listed 10 amendments that were offset that don't show up on their chart as offset, that chart is false on every single one of those amendments. In addition to that, they have taken 1-year appropriations amendments and multiplied them into 5-year amendments. Please, those weren't our amendments. Those are a concoction of what our amendments were. I hate to say this, but our friends have lost sight of the fact that they are in control.…”