John Thune: “we are at a historic crossroads in American history. For the first time since 1969 we have a budget surplus. As we stand…”

“we are at a historic crossroads in American history. For the first time since 1969 we have a budget surplus. As we stand at this crossroads, we see the path fork in front of us and divide in two ways. We can follow Bill Clinton to the left. Bill Clinton wants to lead us down the run down and rutted road that takes us backwards to the era of big government. Or we can walk the road that leads to the right. This path leads us away from big government spending and leads us closer to familiar benchmarks, like personal responsibility and personal freedom. The road to the right gives the American people the power to spend their own money, however they see fit, rather than spending it on some far-off Washington bureaucracy in the form of new government spending. We face an enormous choice today, Mr. Speaker. We can take the road to the left and continue to make the Federal Government bigger and more bloated, or we can go to the right and give the American people more prosperity and more freedom. We have seen where the path leads to the left, Mr. Speaker. We do not want to travel down that road again.”