Tim Ryan: “I got this chart here. This is the end result. This blue is the…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2005

I got this chart here. This is the end result. This blue is the Clinton-era budget deficits that by 1997 started turning into surpluses; and by the time President Clinton left, $128 billion surplus. And that was all based on the 1993 vote that was passed, the budget in 1993 without one Republican vote. Now, these are just the facts. I am not making this up. This is not a partisan statement; it is just the facts.

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