But really, at the end of the day, we have to have a set of priorities balanced against a set of objectives of how much money we have coming in and which to pay for those. Prior to coming to Congress, I spent eight years in the state legislature. We had to run a balanced budget every single year. And that meant that we did a forecast of how much tax revenue we were expecting to take in every year, and then we had an appropriation that was then … (05:54–06:00)
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Asserts eight years of service in the state legislature with a requirement to run a balanced budget annually.
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