Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
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There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country.
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The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.
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When I went to Roosevelt grade school in Bismark, North Dakota, if you reduced spending by 39 and you reduced your income by 70, you were deeper in the hole, ... You've added to the deficit. You haven't reduced it.
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Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.
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