On the recordJuly 29, 2011
I appreciate the comments of the Senator from Nebraska. I think about the fact that he had to use honest figures, honest accounting. I see now a proposal by the majority leader that, to me, seems to be full of accounting gimmicks, tricks, things such as using money as savings that was never intended to be spent at all, saying we will save all of this money by not being at war in Iraq or Afghanistan for the next 10 years and counting $1 trillion in savings when there was never even an intention to spend that in the first place. I don't think anyone in this body or on Capitol Hill believes we will be at surge levels for the next 10 years in 2 wars, Afghanistan and Iraq. So I ask my colleague from Nebraska--and we are also joined by our colleague from South Dakota--he couldn't have done something like that in balancing his budget in Nebraska?
