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Judd Gregg: As the Senator knows, there are a lot of other functions. But I am looking at the surplus, at the deficit surplus…

On the recordJuly 22, 1998
As the Senator knows, there are a lot of other functions. But I am looking at the surplus, at the deficit surplus function, on budget, July: $37 million, $46 million, $45 million, $1 million, $11 million, zero; then we go into surplus, $5 million, $44 million, $55 million, $65 million. We can spend the entire day here debating what the CBO means when it puts a surplus number out which says an on-budget surplus number. But the numbers are there. The Senator said find me a place where we can show a surplus. I found him a place. He wants to try to talk now about gross debt--
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Judd Gregg

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Discussing budget surplus numbers during a Senate debate.

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