We can strengthen Social Security and reduce unemployment by making these proposed changes, and ultimately, these steps will help reduce the deficit as well.

In an interview with me just now, Senator Kent Conrad tore into the media for repeatedly botching its reporting on reconciliation, and confirmed that ...

When I grew up in Texas, the dance we all learned was the Texas two-step. Times have changed.. The next big dance coming out of the Washington thes...

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) asserted on Sunday that the Senate's version of health care legislation will, by and large, be the final product, even thoug...

The health care reform compromise that centrist Democrats and several Republicans have indicated they'd support has shown an inability to effectively ...

Update: Conrad's spokesperson told Salon that the story was inaccurate. Conrad told his constituents that he won't let the government run their hea...

With the outcome of perhaps the most significant domestic legislation since Social Security hanging in the balance, the question arises: who are these six senators and whom do they represent?

Sen. Kent Conrad's proposal for a cooperative approach to health insurance coverage has created a unique challenge for progressive health care advocat...

The bottom line of this story is that nine out of forty-one Republican senators just broke ranks with their party and voted to strip a McCain amendment from a budget bill.