Mark Neumann: “You know you have kind of moved into a discussion of the future, and earlier this evening before you got into the…”

“You know you have kind of moved into a discussion of the future, and earlier this evening before you got into the Chamber here we were discussing the past and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and this vision of Republicans of what we do not want right now, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings promises that were not kept, and the deficits exploded, and the promises were not kept to balance the budget in 1993 where the decision was made not to lower taxes or have tax cuts, and it is amazing to see the fight now on both sides of the aisle about which taxes should be cut because in 1993 before that change in 1995 in that past they raised taxes, they did not lower taxes, and the discussion is about which taxes are now high. That was the past, and then we moved into the present, and we talked about the fact that we are in the third year of a 7-year plan to balance the budget, and we are not only on track, but we are ahead of schedule, and you have kind of turned the discussion now to the future. In the present here we have curtailed the growth of Government spending to a point where we are virtually at a balanced budget or very close to it right now, and we are able to both balance the budget and reduce taxes because we have curtailed the growth of Government spending. This is a Republican vision where we do not want to go back to the broken promises of the past and the tax increases.”