Kent Conrad: “I must say, sometimes my friends on the other side of the aisle amaze me on the question of fiscal policy. Because after…”

“I must say, sometimes my friends on the other side of the aisle amaze me on the question of fiscal policy. Because after nearly 7 years of rubberstamping the Bush administration's completely failed fiscal policy, they are so anxious to distract attention from what they did, they now want to besmirch what we have done. We are not going to let them do that. The fact is, when they were in charge, as recently as last year, they couldn't even get a budget. They had no budget for the United States. They did not produce a budget, even though they controlled the House of Representatives, the White House, and the Senate. In fact, 3 of the last 5 years they didn't produce a budget for this country. Not only did they not produce a budget, they did not finish work on 10 of the 12 appropriations bills for last year. One reason is, we had to start out by doing virtually all of last year's work before we could get started on this year's work.”