William Zeliff: “about 9 months ago we started a project here in the House to address the greatest challenge we all have, and that is to…”

“about 9 months ago we started a project here in the House to address the greatest challenge we all have, and that is to live within our means to turn over a stewardship to the future of our country, to our grandchildren and our children, and in early August we had 234 cosponsors of a letter to the Speaker asking for a time certain to address the challenge of living within our means, to cut spending. After those 234 cosigners, during that following week we signed on and basically passed the deficit reduction bill that added a trillion dollars to our debt, the bill called the Clinton Economic Plan. We then dropped the bill, and we now have 227 cosponsors. We have 172 Republicans and we have 55 Democrats, for a total of 227 cosponsors. It is a bipartisan spending mission. It is a mission because it is a major grassroots effort to address the No. 1 challenge in this House. We think that we can cut $100 billion from this deficit. The key is that we are going to be doing it line by line, and we basically have a proposal on a particular program.”