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Kent Conrad is a former United States Senator from North Dakota, serving from 1993 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his work on fiscal policy and budget issues, particularly as the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Throughout his tenure, Conrad advocated for responsible budgeting and was involved in discussions surrounding Social Security and healthcare reform. He played a significant role in shaping policies that impacted both North Dakota and the nation as a whole.
Can I ask, is there any way, in the Senator's judgment, that using estimates, which I think at least some of us see as the Achille's heel of what is before us because of our experience, bitter experience, with Gramm-Rudman which held out…
Might I just pursue this a bit further and ask the Senator if, in fact, this would not appear to be ripe for further court intervention? That is, what is reasonable? What is in good faith? What represents very small, or negligible…
Good old ``Rosie Scenario,'' in which every year we were presented with estimates that simply overestimated revenue, underestimated expenditures. And for the purposes of meeting the requirements of the legislation, once we had passed…
If I might go to the second question, because section 6 also is a great concern to this Senator. It is a concern to me because the language says, ``the Congress shall enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation, which may…
If I could I inquire further, I must say I share the Senator's concern about involving the courts. I think that would be most unwise. It would dramatically change what our forefathers handed to us in terms of a constitutional document, the…
Of course, no one ever elected any judge or, for that matter, selected any judge for the purpose of making budget determinations in the Federal Government?
Is it the case in the legal matter that involved the State of Missouri that the Federal courts ordered tax increases for the purposes of schools?
I think it would be most unwise to have a situation in which the courts would have the final power of the purse, perhaps not to decide by line item the budgets of the United States, but as the Senator from West Virginia points out, they…
I have been following this debate very carefully. I have found that one of the concerns I have about the amendment that is before us tracks very closely with the concern that has been outlined by the President pro tempore with respect to…
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