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On the recordDecember 16, 2009
Congress has failed to balance our budgets and stop our rapidly-climbing debt, a $1.4 trillion deficit last year, over $12 trillion in terms of our debt limit.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Kent Conrad criticizes Congress for failing to manage the national budget and debt.

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