Orrin Hatch: “I have to say I give him credit for certainly bringing the deficit down from the almost $300 billion that it was--$279…”

“I have to say I give him credit for certainly bringing the deficit down from the almost $300 billion that it was--$279 billion--to $190 billion. But from here on in, through the year 2005, this budget, using optimistic economic assumptions that we all know are going to fluctuate, is admitting that the deficits will be $190 billion at least for every one of those years over the next 10 years. So they are not doing anything to get down to a balanced budget. If I could just add one other thing to my friend from Ohio. Back in the early 1960's, when President Kennedy said we need to put a man on the Moon, he set that as a goal. Nobody then was fully cognizant of what it was going to cost or what we were going to do to get that man there. But we also know that our friend from Ohio was one of the earliest pioneers in that field. He is a hero to all of us, to everybody who understands space and what it took to get there. But if before the President could even set the goal, before the President could even get it done, Congress had said we have to know every detail on how you do it before we do anything, we would not be on the Moon to this day.”