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...Another unexcitable voice, from the laconic flatlands of North Dakota - Senator Kent Conrad - warned on March 10 that Obama's $3.6 trillion budget is already in trouble on Capitol Hill. Democrats may be in power, but they aren't all in agreement with Obama's do-it-all-now approach to solving the nation's most persistent problems. "Anybody who thinks it will be easy to get the votes on the budget in the conditions that we face is smoking something," Conrad declared...
...Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat sought treatment for brain cancer. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and his GOP counterpart Judd Gregg of New Hampshire were also added after President Obama included his $634 billion outline for health-care reform in his 2010 budget request. Other Senators from the Democratic leadership and the HELP and Finance Committees have been intermittently involved...
When the session adjourned, mobs of reporters outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse congregated around any victim willing to speak. Ilene Kent, part of a Google group for Madoff "survivors," said her entire family had invested in Madoff's fund. Did she think he was sorry? "Hell, no," she said. "He's sorry he got caught." She took little comfort in his refusal to look at the victims, even though she thought it betrayed some remorse. "I was shocked," she said. "Maybe his blood isn't cold...
...live in a volatile seismic area and was troubled by your comment that funding volcano-monitoring is "wasteful." What makes some spending superfluous? Caitlin Kidder, KENT, WASH...
...incredibly stupid on Burris' part not to be completely forthcoming. This doesn't fly," said Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield. "They may not have asked him the right questions, but he had an obligation to restore people's faith in the system. If there's bad news, you can contain it, deal with it. Now he's created a situation where people are wondering: when are you telling the truth...