Mark Neumann: “Yes, those deficits that the American people and my colleagues talked about all through the late 1980s and the early…”

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…

For the first time since 1969 for the last 12 months running, this government spent less money than they had in their checkbook. That is just a monumental change in the way things have been done. I should say it again because it is that…

It passed without a single, solitary Republican vote. I am sure the gentleman from Michigan remembers what I am talking about here. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.

Would it be fair to say when we look at the Labor Department, they are missing $3 billion, and if we could cut out that part where they cannot find any, we could apply that $3 billion to tax reductions to the American people?