Kent Conrad: “Environmental cleanup, roads, bridges, airports. He wants to cut those 30 percent. In fact, by the sixth year, he would…”

“Environmental cleanup, roads, bridges, airports. He wants to cut those 30 percent. In fact, by the sixth year, he would cut them 40 percent. If anybody in this country thinks the way we should build for the future is to cut, in the sixth year of Senator Dole's plan, education 40 percent, cut law enforcement 40 percent, cut the construction of roads, bridges and airports 40 percent, sign up to the Dole plan because that is precisely what he is recommending to the American people. That would be a disaster for the economic future of this country. And even with those cuts he is nowhere close to adding up. Instead, we are going to get a huge increase in the debt. That will increase interest rates. That will slow the economy. That will put our economy in the ditch. That is a policy of debt, deficits and decline, and we ought to avoid it at all cost. I yield the floor.”