Judd Gregg: “Well, Mr. President, I regret to inform the Senator from Texas, not surprisingly, he was not. In fact, they dramatically…”

“Well, Mr. President, I regret to inform the Senator from Texas, not surprisingly, he was not. In fact, they dramatically increased spending in last year's budget in the discretionary spending. They increased it well over what the President asked for--$250 billion of additional spending over what the President asked for over 5 years in their budget. Then, on top of that--that was not enough for them-- they stuck $21 billion into the supplemental, which translates into another $200 billion of spending increases. So they had a total of approximately $450 billion of new spending--almost $500 billion of new spending--over 5 years in their budget last year. So they did not discipline the budget spending at all. So when Senator Conrad said on ``60 Minutes,'' ``We need to be tough on spending,'' they were not able to live up to that.”