In 1998 the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit of somewhere in the neighborhood of $225 billion, the President's plan. In 1999, that number would have been about $250 billion. In the year 2000, it would be about $290 billion. This is a year. We would be in debt $290 billion more.
Discussing projected budget deficits during a floor speech.
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