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Kent Conrad: Bill Guy was a very close friend of my family and somebody who has been a mentor to me in public service. Bill Guy was a…

On the recordMarch 20, 2003
Bill Guy was a very close friend of my family and somebody who has been a mentor to me in public service. Bill Guy was a balanced budget Democrat. He believed in balanced budgets and he believed in fiscal responsibility. He was proud to stand with the Senator from South Carolina during that time of dramatically rising deficits. To him it was a threat to the economic security of the country and he thought the Senator from South Carolina had the best plan. I think if anybody looks back objectively at that time, one will see in fact the Senator from South Carolina did have the best plan. If it had been adopted at the time we would have avoided much of the debt now facing the country.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Remembering Bill Guy and discussing the importance of balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility.

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