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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
I just spent the last year and a half getting a farm bill passed, and we paid for the farm bill.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Kent Conrad defends the fiscal responsibility of the farm bill he helped pass.

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