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      <excerpt>...White House officials, including budget director Peter Orszag, met Tuesday with Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad to discuss establishing such a commission, which has been pushed by Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, and his Republican cou</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> If the public option is weakened even further during the floor debate, however, it&amp;#39;s likely to be just short of useless&#8230; sort of like Kent Conrad&amp;#39;s co-ops. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> If the public option is weakened even further during the floor debate, however, it&amp;#39;s likely to be just short of useless&#8230; sort of like Kent Conrad&amp;#39;s co-ops. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Perhaps the defective and unconstitutional Senator(?) could explain what the United States Constitution says about illegal aliens and others that are not American Citizens. Senator Kent Conrad. An unconstitutional asshat. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Gold-Star father David Jeffers to ND Senator Kent Conrad: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m staying.&amp;quot; American Thinker. Senator Conrad&amp;#39;s insulting defense of trying KSM in New York. by David Jeffers. Democrat Senator from North Dakota, Kent Conrad, while defending ..</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Conrad Suggests That People Who Don&amp;#39;t Believe in Civilian Trials for Terrorists Should Leave America and &amp;#39;Go Somewhere Else&amp;#39; November 25, 2009. Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to ...</excerpt>
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