Kent Conrad actually said...

I would just respond to the gentleman that I have seen a bigger budget gimmick, and that is fighting the war in Iraq without putting a nicke...

All of us who participated in supporting that bear responsibility.

I believe it is a combination of a very loose monetary policy, a very loose fiscal policy, a very loose trade policy, all coupled with dereg...

I think there was one part of it that was very, very wrong, and I regret deeply my own going along with it.