Mark Neumann: “it is true, everything the gentleman is saying. But I think the most important outcome here is that it is good for the…”

“it is true, everything the gentleman is saying. But I think the most important outcome here is that it is good for the American people. That is what this is all about. The gentleman has gone back and hit on those past things. I think it is important. We remember the broken promises, where Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is going to get us to a balanced budget, and it did not happen; in 1993 where they said they were going to cut taxes but instead they gave us the biggest tax increase in history. And I think it is very important we contrast that to the present, and we look at the fact that we are fulfilling our campaign promises for 1994. We are actually doing what we told the American people we would. I would like to kind of wrap up the discussion of the present and turn our focus to the future with this chart. This chart shows when we came here what the deficit stream was projected to be. Deficits were headed up over $300 billion. If we had come here and played golf and basketball instead of doing our job, this is where the deficit line would have gone. Twelve months in the yellow line shows how much progress was made. The green line shows our hope to balance the Federal budget. This is our Republican plan laid into place in 1995 to balance the Federal budget.”