John Thune: “I think that is remarkable when we think about where we have come from, starting when our side took a poll of the…”

“I think that is remarkable when we think about where we have come from, starting when our side took a poll of the Congress back in 1994, and began to govern in 1995, and how progressively each year we have been able to whittle away at the deficit to the point today where the fiscal discipline has actually paid off and we are doing something in terms of talking about operating with a surplus. I think that is a remarkable achievement. It has been almost 30 years since that happened, since government was in the black. When we think about 30 years ago, most people now serving in Congress probably were probably closer to studying civics in high school or in the college classroom than they were to voting on the House floor.”