Mark Neumann: “I just want to kind of conclude this conversation this evening with just kind of a summary here. A lot of times what has…”

“I just want to kind of conclude this conversation this evening with just kind of a summary here. A lot of times what has happened and what is going to happen over the next couple of weeks is this House is going to be divided. We are going to hear the Democrats saying Republicans are proposing tax cuts paid for with Social Security money. We are going to see some Republicans, myself included, going, 'We cannot use that Social Security money for tax cuts.' And there is going to be a fight going on. But we need to keep the big picture in mind. For goodness sakes, in 3 years we have gotten to that balanced budget that was not promised to be here until 2002. We have got our job done. The only reason we are having this fight at all is because we have gotten to a balanced budget and we are running surpluses, not in 2002, like the Republicans promised when the Republicans took over in 1995. That is not what happened. We did not get there in 2002. We got there in 1998. It is about time I think that some of the people that are responsible for this get some of the credit for doing it. By controlling government spending, we brought a tax cut about first time in 16 years. We brought about the first balanced budget since 1969.”