Conrad Burns
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"Conrad Ray Burns" is a lobbyist and former List of United States Senators from Montana/United States Senator from Montana. He is only the second Republican Party (United States)/Republican to represent Montana in the United States Senate/Senate since the passage in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and is the longest-serving Republican senator in Montana history.

While in the Senate, Burns sat on the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations/Senate Appropriations Committee and was the chairman of its United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies/Subcommittee on the Interior. He was also chairman of the United States Senate Communication Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee/Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee's Communications subcommittee.

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They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

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You approached it the right way.

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I'm not sure there is a lot of legislation we can pass ... but we can cut through some red tape.

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Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

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Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

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If anyone has ownership rights, it's the citizens of Montana, ... It's nonsense to try to secure the rights to it in the first place.

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The Last Best Place.

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Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

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I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

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