Mark Neumann: “I have to tell my colleagues about my dream when we talk about this, because this is my dream for my own personal…”

“I have to tell my colleagues about my dream when we talk about this, because this is my dream for my own personal future. My wife dreams about going to Hawaii, and I think that is a wonderful dream, too. But my dream is, I wake up some morning and I get a phone call, and the phone is sitting right by my bed, and it is the President of the United States. And I do not care if it is a Democrat President or Republican President. But he says, ``Mark, we are going to balance the budget. I am giving you the veto pen. So get over here, line-item enough junk out of this budget that is wasteful Washington spending, get the budget balanced, here is the pen.'' That is my dream in life, is that some morning I wake up and the President says, ``Mark, you've got the line-item veto. Get over here and do it.'' I cannot agree with my colleague more. I was one of the original cosponsors on line-item veto. And I would hope that the President does use it more, not less.”