On the recordMarch 19, 2002
The real issue, of course, that is perhaps annoying to them, I think, or at least discomforting to them, and the one that was never referenced, but is the one accurate representation of the budget resolution that the majority party will offer tomorrow, is that it is balanced. That is to say, this budget resolution will set out for the Congress of the United States and for the American people a budget that will spend no more money than we will take in. Now, this is something that is not very comfortable to the minority party. They have really not operated under that kind of restriction for as long as they held control of this House. For 40 years, of course, profligate spending of the minority party Members, when they were in control of this House, put us into a situation that we in fact had robbed the Social Security trust fund every single year.
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