I hope we could also carry on a colloquy and make clear to the American people what is happening on this budget. When you speak of the young lady being sawed in half, I always figured that was contortions with one whole person in each half of the box. I think that contortions on the budget is something that Congress has become accustomed to. I appreciate the gentleman from Hawaii suggesting that the budget is not a true balanced budget in terms of the fact that it does not consider whether it is borrowing from the 153 odd trust funds, the large contributor to that lending, of course, is the Social Security trust fund, but still----
Nick Smith: “I hope we could also carry on a colloquy and make clear to the American people what is happening on this budget. When…”
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Discussing the complexities and implications of the federal budget.
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