“I hope, and I truly hope, that as we move forward with this spending bill and also a tax cut bill, we are not going to let the rain come falling down in the next 5 years, we have a 5-year plan and the outyears, it is a 10-year plan, where we have huge deficits like we have seen. This has to be a fiscally responsible and a disciplined budget, or we are going to be back to where we were when I came here in 1993.”
Discussing the importance of a fiscally responsible budget during a debate on spending and tax cuts.
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