We can have a tax cut, but if I announced... here's a sizable tax cut.

By balancing the budget we have begun to reduce the debt.

A unified budget presents spending tradeoffs and permits more fully informed decisions to be made on allocating the Nation's resources.

We can reduce publicly held debt to its lowest level since 1917.

If we start paying this debt down and we go all the way, if we stay on this trajectory we could be debt-free for the first time in 2018.

I pledged to work on eliminating the deficit, and now we are into our second year of surpluses.

Fiscal discipline helped to build this strong economy; fiscal recklessness could undermine it dramatically.

For Fiscal Year 1999, the District estimates revenues of $5.230 billion and total expenditures of $5.189 billion resulting in a $41 million budget surplus.

This proposed Fiscal Year 1999 Budget represents the major programmatic objectives of the Mayor, the Council of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance for fiscal years 1998 and 1999.

We've worked hard to cut the deficit and to ensure that our tax dollars are used wisely, carefully and effectively.

The line item veto gives the President a vital new tool to ensure that our tax dollars are well spent.

The use of the line item veto here will ensure that we focus on those projects that will best secure our strength in the years to come.

I urge the Congress to complete action on the remaining FY 1998 appropriations bills as quickly as possible.

I hereby determine that it is necessary for the purposes of the Act that $4 million of funds made available under Chapter 4 of Part II of the Act for fiscal year 1997 be transferred to, and consolidated with, funds made available under Chapter 6 of Part II of the Act.

I am proposing a balanced budget.

You can follow our plan with 4 years of evidence and go on and balance the budget.

I want to balance the budget.