If Congress has been doing its job for 25 years we would not be here tonight. If we were really interested in balancing the budget... we have failed to balance the budget since 1969. That was the last time we balanced a budget. And that is the reason we are here. We are here because something is not working.
Addressing the failure to balance the federal budget during a floor speech.
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