Richard Neal actually said...

I hope that we are going to find a common path forward on many of these issues.

In January 2001, CBO estimated that the total budget surplus for 2002 to 2011 would be $5.6 trillion, surplus.

Many of the most senior Members of this Committee routinely voted to raise the debt ceiling during those years.

Instead, after years of reckless spending and tax cuts, the Federal Government ran deficits from 2002 until 2011.