Mark Neumann: “I feel compelled, even with this respect, to rise and speak against the budget, because tonight we have an historical…”

“I feel compelled, even with this respect, to rise and speak against the budget, because tonight we have an historical occasion staring us in the face. In 1990, I sold my business to run for Congress because I had watched what past Congresses had done on balancing the budget. They had pleased the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, and in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act they were going to balance the budget by 1991. They went 1 year, then they went off their track and it started going back up again. Then they revised the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and they went 1 year and it started going back up again. I want to make sure everyone in this room and all my colleagues can see this because we are at this historical point once again this evening.”