Steny Hoyer: “those were the facts out of CBO's book, who that side has appointed. The chairman of the Committee on the Budget…”

“those were the facts out of CBO's book, who that side has appointed. The chairman of the Committee on the Budget mentioned Alan Greenspan early on in this debate, and people have forgotten that. Alan Greenspan came before the Congress in 1995 and said to the Joint Economic Committee, before their policies had any place in this economy, that the economy was in the best shape it had been in over 30 years. Those were the facts. Tonight we talk about budget baloney, budget baloney. I did not say that, the New York Times said it. The New York Times, not a good source. I tell my friend, the gentleman from Arizona, that his neighbor from New Mexico did not call it baloney. He called it a mockery. He was then joined by Senator Stevens, another Republican leader, chair of the Appropriations Committee, and he said, if the Republican budget in the House is adopted, ``I don't think Congress could function.'' The New York Times, Senator Domenici, Senator Stevens. We have had a lot of talk on this floor. In 1993 your CBO said the 103rd Congress reduced the deficit by $116 billion. That same CBO, not a Democratic CBO, that same CBO, said that the 104th Congress, 105th Congress and 106th Congress, reduced it by $23 billion; in other words, 20 percent of what was done under the Clinton Congress with Democratic leadership.”