Kent Conrad actually said...

we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion over the next 10 years.

I give him credit for stabilizing the debt, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.

The plain fact is the budget doubles our gross national debt, never once produces an annual deficit of less than $600 billion in its 10 year...

I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.