I have been looking forward for a long time to this opportunity because the Senator from Pennsylvania makes a lot of aggressive assertions. Unfortunately, he is aggressively wrong, wrong, wrong. Let's start with the question of when the deficit starts. The Senator from Pennsylvania says it started in the Clinton administration.
Debating claims about the origins of the federal deficit.
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All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.
I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.
It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.
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