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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
If we just use the historical average for revenues, at no time in the last 40 years would we have balanced the budget, not one time.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota
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Kent Conrad emphasizes the historical budget balancing challenges.

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