George Voinovich: “Most people would say it would be miraculous. But the point I am making is you could argue about this number. You can…”

“Most people would say it would be miraculous. But the point I am making is you could argue about this number. You can make a big deal out of it in terms of we know we are going to do this and you are going to raise these issues. But the real issue is to try to get down to where we were 5 years ago. I can assure you, for this Congress to achieve this will be something very significant and cause a great deal of discipline in terms of extending tax reductions, and so forth. In effect, in order to get here we are going to have to have some pay-go restrictions in order to make that happen. All I am saying is, say what you want about these first couple of years, down the road the Senate could achieve what I have on this chart. It would be a wonderful gift to the American people because we could guarantee to them that we are going to have a true on-budget surplus.”