Kent Conrad: “The Baucus amendment looked to the $132 billion surplus we had in 2012... That amendment deserves our support. Senator…”

“The Baucus amendment looked to the $132 billion surplus we had in 2012... That amendment deserves our support. Senator Kyl then comes with an amendment to extend all of the other tax cuts, but unfortunately he does not pay for it. He does not have any offset. That would drive our budget back into deficit. Please, colleagues, let's not do that. Let's not take the country--after all this work of getting out of the deficit ditch, which this budget resolution does--right back into deficit. To me, it makes no sense. That is going in the wrong direction.”