C000705 1948-03-12 9310 530 Hart Senate Office Building http://conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm 202-224-7776 Kent 'd':4 'nd':5 'sen':1 'kent':2,6,8 'conrad':3,7,9 M 300026 Conrad Kent_Conrad Kent Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] 5068 N00004613 10296 Democrat 202-224-2043 Unitarian ND Kent Conrad 3.51515151515152 http://conrad.senate.gov 300026 Person democrat Tue Feb 09 11:18:24 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 ...Republicans and three Democrats spent an hour with Obama this afternoon, half of it with no staff in attendance. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) called the meeting "very constructive and very honest." The historical record on this is unambiguous. Obama and th 'd':31,33 'n':32 'th':51 'd-n':30 'new':53 'sen':27 'call':34 'half':19 'hour':14 'kent':28 'know':2 'last':6 'meet':36 'obama':16,49 'spent':12 'staff':24 'three':10 'attend':26 'conrad':29 'histor':43 'honest':41 'record':44 'republ':54 'summer':7 'democrat':11 'unambigu':48 'afternoon':18 'construct':38 'republican':8 7537125 true true daylife The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/ OK http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer 300026 Person senator Tue Feb 09 22:32:20 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 ...Kent Conrad needs to quit whining and quit hiding. He is now slamming and blaming television coverage of health care (see below) for the failure to pass it.  Do you have any idea how many times we at ON THE RECORD at 10pm have called his office and as 'fox':57 'see':28 '10pm':50 'call':52 'care':27 'hide':7,16 'idea':40 'kent':8 'mani':42 'need':10 'news':58 'pass':34 'quit':3,6,12,15 'slam':20 'time':43 'blame':22 'offic':54 'senat':1 'whine':4,13 'conrad':2,9 'failur':32 'health':26 'record':48 'coverag':24 'televis':23 7546733 true true daylife FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/ OK http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/blogs/Gretawire/~3/GovqdVaUdD8/ 300026 Person democrat Mon Feb 08 11:06:06 -0600 2010 Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010 ...$3.2 million in member transfers last year, including a Democratic Conference-leading $315,000 from Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (N.D.). The new year opened similarly, as Democratic senators in January transferred $445,000 in campaign and leadership poli 'cq':45 '000':20,39 '3.2':6 '315':19 '445':38 'n.d':26 'new':28 'dscc':5 'fund':3 'kent':24 'last':11 'lead':18 'open':30 'poli':44 'pour':2 'year':12,29 'polit':46 'senat':34 'budget':22 'confer':17 'conrad':25 'includ':13 'incumb':1 'member':9 'januari':36 'million':7 'similar':31 'campaign':41 'chairman':23 'democrat':15,33 'transfer':10,37 'leadership':43 'conference-lead':16 7529119 true true daylife CQ Politics http://www.cqpolitics.com/president_2008/index.html OK http://www.cqpolitics.com/news-000003291705 300026 Person republican Sat Feb 06 22:16:13 -0600 2010 Sat Feb 06 00:00:00 -0600 2010 The measure was cosponsored by Sen. Kent Conrad (D) of North Dakota and Sen. Judd Gregg (R) of New Hampshire, the chair and ranking Republican on the Senate ... 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'r':13 '60':23 'sen':9 'aisl':19 'gone':27 'look':4 'mass':14 'seat':8 'vote':24 'brown':11 'major':25 'newli':7 'reach':16 'scott':10 'senat':1 'across':17 'r-mass':12 'newly-s':6 'democrat':2 'newshour':28 7529117 true true google news NewsHour OK http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6125JV20100204?type=politicsNews 300026 Person congress Sat Feb 06 22:16:14 -0600 2010 Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 -0600 2010 Congress has no stomach for such tasks, which is why Gregg, along with Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, sponsored a deficit reduction bill that ... 'sen':15 'bill':25 'kent':16 'task':7 'along':12 'gregg':11 'north':19 'conrad':17 'dakota':20 'reduct':24 'concord':27 'deficit':23 'monitor':28 'sponsor':21 'stomach':4 'congress':1 'democrat':14 7517435 true true google news Concord Monitor OK http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60U00220100205 300026 Person sen\. Sat Feb 06 22:16:14 -0600 2010 Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 -0600 2010 He got his appointment through Sen. Kent Conrad. It was believed to be the longest session in many years because of the ongoing health care debate. ... 'got':2 'sen':6 'care':25 'kent':7 'lake':29 'mani':18 'ongo':23 'year':19 'daili':30 'debat':26 'devil':27 'believ':11 'conrad':8 'health':24 'appoint':4 'journal':31 'longest':15 'session':16 7517436 true true google news Devil's Lake Daily Journal OK http://www.devilslakejournal.com/news/x231975411/2009-a-history-making-year-for-Lucas-Wakefield-as-Senate-page 300026 Person republican Thu Feb 04 22:30:55 -0600 2010 Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 -0600 2010 ...a bipartisan amendment for a fiscal task force that the president said he favored. The measure was cosponsored by Sen. Kent Conrad (D) of North Dakota and Sen. Judd Gregg (R) of New Hampshire, the chair and ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Commi 'd':33 'r':41 'new':43 'sen':30,38 'forc':18 'judd':39 'kent':31 'make':4 'rank':48 'said':22 'task':17 'amend':13 'brown':3 'chair':46 'commi':54 'favor':24 'gregg':40 'north':35 'parti':6 'scott':2 'senat':52 'budget':53 'conrad':32 'dakota':36 'fiscal':16 'measur':26 'presid':21 'hampshir':44 'cosponsor':28 'bipartisan':12 'republican':49 'minnpost.com':55 'obstructionist':10 7495114 true true daylife MinnPost.com http://www.minnpost.com/ OK http://www.minnpost.com/worldcsm/2010/02/03/15571/will_scott_brown_make_the_party_of_no_more_obstructionist 300026 Person senate Sat Feb 06 22:16:14 -0600 2010 Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 -0600 2010 Senate moderates from both parties -- including Agriculture Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (DN.D.), and Sens. ... 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'new':4 'sen':8 'way':25 'come':27 'fail':15 'find':23 'judd':1 'kent':9 'need':21 'gregg':2 'north':12 'senat':18 'conrad':10 'dakota':13 'congress':20 'democrat':7 'hampshir':5 'pantagraph':30 'bloomington':29 7517433 true true google news Bloomington Pantagraph OK http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/01/31/obama-budget-deficit.html 300026 Person congress Tue Feb 09 22:32:14 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) is chairing a Senate Budget Committee hearing examining Pres. Obama's FY 2011 budget, released last week, and its impact on the national debt. Economics professors are sharing their thoughts on the U.S. economic ... 'd':9 'fy':22 'nd':10 'sen':5 'u.s':43 '2011':23 'd-nd':8 'debt':34 'hear':17 'kent':6 'last':26 'pres':19 'week':27 'chair':12 'obama':20 'senat':14 'share':38 'action':3 'budget':15,24 'conrad':7 'econom':35,44 'examin':18 'impact':30 'nation':33 'releas':25 'thought':40 'committe':16 'congress':1 'professor':36 'point/counterpoint':4,45 7546731 false true google blog Point/Counterpoint http://ynative77.wordpress.com/ OK http://ynative77.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/congress-in-action/ 300026 Person senator Tue Feb 09 22:32:14 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 I'm not sure how else to take these comments from Senator Kent Conrad. He seems to be simultaneously complaining that the news media spent too much time health care and not enough. Maybe his real problem is that the media just didn't ... 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Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, one of the Senate's strictest spending hawks and among only 'one':5,19,40 'say':12,18,33 'sen':35 'tom':36 'way':29 'hawk':47 'kent':2 'know':10 'time':26 'vote':23 'among':49 'anoth':4 'hundr':24 'money':32 'senat':14,43 'spend':31,46 'thing':20 'coburn':37 'conrad':3,17 'fiscal':9 'thyself':11 'colleagu':16 'democrat':8 'oklahoma':39 'strictest':45 'republican':34 'schansblog':1,51 7546728 false true google blog SchansBlog http://schansblog.blogspot.com/ OK http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/kent-conrad-another-one-of-those.html 300026 Person republican Tue Feb 09 22:32:14 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 The bipartisan proposal was co-sponsored by Sen. Kent Conrad, (D) North Dakota, the chairman of the Budget Committee, and Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the committee's senior Republican. Sen. Max Baucus, (D) Montana, the chairman of ... 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'ink':3 'red':2 'call':7 'forc':24 'idea':30 'issu':41 'judd':18 'kent':13 'news':5,45 'task':23 'excel':29 'gregg':19 'polit':4,44 'senat':12,17 'trust':32 'conrad':14 'propos':9 'record':1 'reduct':27 'thorni':40 'address':37 'deficit':26 'democrat':11 'taskforc':35 'greenspan':6 'bipartisan':22 'republican':16 7546730 false true google blog Political News http://gothillaryclinton.com/ OK http://gothillaryclinton.com/?p=82 300026 Person congress Tue Feb 09 22:32:20 -0600 2010 Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010 ...to muster enough votes to break the filibuster on Craig Becker’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board. (Senate) Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] “slammed television news stories that ‘obsess’ over ‘death panels’ and minor issues in Democ 'd':26 'nd':27 'sen':23 'issu':39 'kent':24 'link':2 'news':30 'slam':28 'vote':6 'board':21 'break':8 'craig':12 'death':35 'democ':41 'labor':19 'minor':38 'nomin':15 'panel':36 'relat':20 'senat':22 'stori':31 'becker':13 'conrad':25 'enough':5 'muster':4 'nation':18 'obsess':33 'televis':29 'congress':1 'filibust':10 'opencongress':42 7546734 false true daylife OpenCongress http://www.opencongress.org/blog OK http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCongressCongressGossipBlog/~3/c0pHuTB8vXo/1552-Congress-Links 300026 Person democrat Tue Feb 09 11:18:18 -0600 2010 Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010 In a move that will further irritate his Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday evening that he would not just oppose but also help filibuster President Barack Obama's nominee to a key labor relations agency In a statement fr 'd':23 'fr':53 'ben':1,20 'key':5,46 'neb':24 'sen':19 'also':36 'even':28 'feed':56 'full':55 'help':37 'move':11 'agenc':49 'd-neb':22 'irrit':15 'labor':7,47 'obama':6,41 'oppos':34 'relat':48 'would':31 'barack':40 'critic':18 'monday':27 'nelson':2,21 'nomine':8,43 'presid':39 'announc':25 'democrat':17 'filibust':4,38 'statement':52 'huffingtonpost.com':58 7537122 false true google blog The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf OK http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/ben-nelson-to-filibuster_n_454437.html 300026 Person democrat Mon Feb 08 22:13:04 -0600 2010 Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010 Sen. Kent Conrad (Democrat; North Dakota) told CNS News that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al-Qaeda terrorists and if Americans don't believe in our system, maybe they ought to leave America and go somewhere else. ... 'al':27 'go':5,46 'buy':2 'cns':15 'els':48 'sen':8 'kent':9 'leav':43 'mayb':39 'news':16 'suit':23 'told':14 'well':22 'court':19 'insur':3 'north':12 'ought':41 'qaeda':28 'believ':35 'conrad':10 'dakota':13 'prison':7 'system':38 'america':44 'al-qaeda':26 'american':32 'civilian':18 'democrat':11 'prosecut':25 'somewher':47 'newsc.net':1,49 'terrorist':29 'well-suit':21 7531863 false true google blog Newsc.Net http://news.playghost.com/ OK http://news.playghost.com/2010/02/buy-insurance-or-go-to-prison/ 300026 Person senate Mon Feb 08 22:13:04 -0600 2010 Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010 In some ways, the Times article was similar to a Wall Street Journal article from Thursday by Neil King Jr., which stated that, “[Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)] has become one of the Senate's most vociferous deficit hawks, warning that the ... 'd':35 'ag':6 'jr':27 'nd':36 'one':39 'sen':31 'way':10 'blog':2 'd-nd':34 'hawk':47 'issu':5 'kent':32 'king':26 'neil':25 'time':12 'wall':18 'warn':48 'becom':38 'senat':42 'state':29 'archiv':3 'articl':13,21 'budget':4 'conrad':33 'street':19 'deficit':46 'economi':7 'journal':20 'similar':15 'vocifer':45 'thursday':23 'farmpolicy.com':1,51 7531861 false true google blog FarmPolicy.com http://www.farmpolicy.com/ OK http://www.farmpolicy.com/?p=1893 300026 Person senate Tue Feb 09 11:18:18 -0600 2010 Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010 Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) leads the way, having given $315K so far. Senate Maj. Whip Dick Durbin has given $265K, and even Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has chipped in $200K. And more may be coming; Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who announced ... 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