Kent Conrad actually said...

I want to thank you for that as well, because this budget really does reflect being responsible about how we get where we want to go to save dollars.

Kent Conrad appreciates the budget's responsible approach to saving money.

01/07/2009

More Kent Conrad Quotes

Senator Byrd, a member of this Committee and somebody who has forgotten more about the rules than most of us know.

Budget resolutions have become messaging instruments, not budgeting instruments.

Sense of the Senate really became absurd... it is purely messaging, and it is a giant waste of time.

I think we need as a body to think very, very carefully about do we want reconciliation to be used in that way.