Kent Conrad: “They had one, but they did not have a budget there. It is most amazing. As my colleague knows, a conference is the…”

“They had one, but they did not have a budget there. It is most amazing. As my colleague knows, a conference is the representatives of the Senate and the representatives of the House coming together to work out the differences between the two. We were there, the Members were there. I think you would have been quite amazed, I say to the Senator from South Carolina, because there was no budget there, there was no document there. There was no discussion about the differences between the House and Senate. What we had was an immaculate conception. What we had was a document that appeared out of nowhere after we had met.”