Kent Conrad: “I don't know, honestly, what amendment our chairman is looking at, but it is not mine. I don't have spending in the…”

“I don't know, honestly, what amendment our chairman is looking at, but it is not mine. I don't have spending in the amendment. I have not provided for the Democratic leader's plan--I have not. In the amendment the chairman is discussing, I have $150 billion of tax cuts, including $25 billion of refundables, which the chairman has in his own package. I have matched his own package on refundables. I have no spending. The only thing that, perhaps, he is looking at is in the early years, because I more front-end-loaded the plan. We have additional interest costs initially. But over the life of the plan, it is substantially less interest cost. This isn't a plan with spending in it; it is a plan that has tax cuts in it.”