It will not be long and CBO will be in our court, and they will actually admit that the budget is going to be balanced next year, in fiscal year 1998, for the first time in 30 years. They are slowly coming around to the numbers that the gentleman and I have been working on and putting out regularly over the last 3 months that do demonstrate we are going to hit this balanced budget 4 years ahead of schedule.
Mark Neumann: “It will not be long and CBO will be in our court, and they will actually admit that the budget is going to be balanced…”
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Discussing the projected balanced budget for fiscal year 1998.
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