John Thune: “for 40 years the liberal Congress spent all their time trying to figure out ways to spend the American people's money…”

“for 40 years the liberal Congress spent all their time trying to figure out ways to spend the American people's money and build a bigger Federal Government. Now they are accusing us of being a do-nothing Congress. They are right. By their definition, we have done nothing to raise taxes, we have done nothing to build new Federal bureaucracies, we have done nothing to take power from hardworking Americans and give it to Washington bureaucrats. However, we have balanced the budget for the first time in 30 years, we have cut taxes on hardworking Americans for the first time in 16 years, saved Medicare, reformed welfare, and reformed the IRS. At the same time we have lowered interest rates on student loans. The liberals are right. We have done nothing liberal. But we have done a lot for the future of the American people.”