Gilbert Gutknecht: “I want to say a special congratulations and thanks to my colleague. I…”

On the recordMay 14, 1998

I want to say a special congratulations and thanks to my colleague. I remember a couple of years ago when we first started having some joint town hall meetings. I represent Minnesota, he represents Wisconsin. When we first started talking about actually balancing the budget, and more importantly, even paying down some of the $5.4 trillion worth of debt that we have run up, that this Congress in the past, at least, has run up on our kids, a lot of people thought we were both crazy. We said that we believed we could balance the budget not just in 7 years, that it could actually be done in much less time. As a matter of fact, the gentleman from Wisconsin came over to my district last year, we had a couple of joint appearances, and then we both predicted that there was a very good chance we would not only balance the budget this year, but there is a very good chance we would have a surplus this year.

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Gilbert Gutknecht

Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing budget balancing efforts and collaboration with a colleague during a floor speech.

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Gilbert Gutknecht: “I want to say a special congratulations and thanks to my colleague. I remember a couple of years ago when we first…”

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