John Kasich: “let me, in summation, say that the language in this resolution, while at times bordering, well, not bordering but…”

“let me, in summation, say that the language in this resolution, while at times bordering, well, not bordering but frankly inflammatory, the orders directed therein are not anything different than what we were planning to do. Boy, that sure sounds like Washington double-talk. We do not think this resolution is a big deal, so I am urging my Members to go ahead and accept it. Let me just for a second talk about the budget so that Members of this body will clearly understand what we are doing. And it should give us cause for celebration, because at one point we were struggling to try to figure out how to balance the budget. Now we are to the point where we are actually able to go beyond balancing the budget to the point where we are running huge surpluses. And we think the surpluses are a great opportunity to leverage good news into even better news. The good news on the side of Social Security, and I want to compliment the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), my friend. He has joined with the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Kolbe) in what I think is a creative opportunity to try to preserve Social Security, not just for the seniors. We know the seniors are going to get their Social Security. But the challenge is what do we do for the baby boomers and their kids?”