Mark Neumann: “We are now in surplus in both the general fund and in the Social Security fund. There is such good news on the economic…”

That amendment that I brought to the floor to end the cow gas study was very quickly accepted down here. Some of our colleagues may not even be aware that we were spending lots of money, the taxpayers' money to study cow gas out here…

If we have 90 percent of the money that is coming in for Social Security over and above what we are paying back out to seniors in benefits and 90 percent of that money is set aside and 10 percent is used for tax cuts because that is the…

help me understand why it is that, as a taxpayer sends their money to Washington, and Washington decides how to best provide education for those kids back home, what exactly is it in the water out here or what is out here that makes us…

I have added a line in this chart, a black line. And what that does is wall off this Social Security money and forces it to go into Social Security instead of into the general fund. So, now, let us talk through these surpluses one more…