Roy Blunt: “We have warmer winters in Missouri, and there are lots of other good things about our State. Mr. Speaker, one of those…”

“We have warmer winters in Missouri, and there are lots of other good things about our State. Mr. Speaker, one of those is, I think it was one of my predecessors in Congress from our State about 100 years ago gave our State the name, the Show-me State. He said, I am from Missouri, you have to show me. And certainly we are skeptical, as many people are in my district are, about really what is happening as we work to balance this budget. Now clearly, clearly the last two Congresses and the hard work of the American people have gotten us a long way. I think in January of 1995 the projected deficit for last year was $365 billion. This was after the President's tax increase, this was after 2, 3 years of the Clinton administration, and the projected deficit was $365 billion. It turned out to be $22 billion. We got that announcement yesterday. As the gentleman from South Dakota (Mr. Thune) mentioned, it looks like now for the first time in 30 years we are running a surplus, but of course what Missourians wonder about is how we could be running a surplus and still be increasing the national debt.”