we never got a balanced budget that kyo bring to the floor that we could bring to the floor, not in a single year, but i will say, mr. speaker, during the height of the iraq war when things looked as bad as they could have looked and about the time that george bush was preparing to order the surge, about that period of time we had a budget that came within $160 billion of balancing. $160 billion, mr. speaker. now, that $160 billion, boy, how do i wish we would have found a way to tighten it down so we didn't have that deficit, that we could have balanced that budget in that year? we came very, very close. $160 billion doesn't sound close, it's close. it's really close compared to what we have today. and so the president offers a budget that nobody will pick up and vote for and support but it's a $1.65 trillion deficit spending budget. $1.65 trillion. and i listened to people that will say to me, republicans overspent. yes, we did. i make that confession. but the overspending of $160 billion compared to the overspending of $1.65 trillion is 10 to one obama administration versus the bus