Kent Conrad: “For precisely the same reason that the Senator has given for his including extending the middle-class tax cuts when he…”

“For precisely the same reason that the Senator has given for his including extending the middle-class tax cuts when he last wrote a budget resolution in 2006. It would have covered the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. The Senator included the extension of those middle-class tax cuts, just as I have done, because it was a 5-year budget resolution, and then the Senator's side did not execute, just as we did not last year, because there was no necessity to do it because those tax provisions do not expire until 2010. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. You extended the middle-class tax cuts in your 2006 resolution and then did not execute because there was no need to do so because those tax cuts don't expire until 2010. That is precisely what we have done.”