Published December 13, 2012, 12:00 AM


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This file photo shows retiring Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conrad bid farewell to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, saying he treasured his 26 years of service there but lamenting what he sees as an erosion of the spirit of bipartisanship in the last quarter century.

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