Martin Sabo: “I have no problem defending the President's budget versus that of the gentleman from Ohio. The President's is much…”

“I have no problem defending the President's budget versus that of the gentleman from Ohio. The President's is much better, much better for education and training, much better potentially for reforming Medicare in a fashion that will work. The reality is your changes, you add some money up early, your provider Medicare cuts are going to have to be deeper in the final year, 2002, than they were in your original plan. Why? to accommodate your tax cuts. You talk about front end and back end loading. Somehow, there is enough money for your tax cut in 1997, for you show a deficit increase then, too. Miraculously, your tax cut costs less in 2002 than it does in 2001. There is some end loading in the President's, but you have the same problem. If you did not want that, if you wanted a nice, steady flow, you would have voted for the coalition budget.”