Passing the bills in one house with a majority is nothing. It's getting them through conference that's the challenge. And Newt and his freshmen class accomplished more in succeeding years, hammering home that initial victory once the Clinton and the Dims caught their wind and really tore into them.
I thought it was a remarkable record. Until Xlinton left office, every year the government's deficit was shrinking. Too bad that record of fiscal restraint ended in FY 2002.
...And Newt and his freshmen class accomplished more in succeeding years, hammering home that initial victory once the Clinton and the Dims caught their wind and really tore into them. Until Xlinton left office, every year the government's deficit was shrinking. Federal receipts during the Clinton years were inflated a due to the stock market bubble.
Looking at total federal outlays during the Newt/Clinton years, Newt/Clinton FY year budgets ('96 to '99) can best be characterized as budgets that cut DOD spending (and this was after Clinton already cut DOD spending drastically his previous two years in FY '94 and '95).
It was only in FY '96, a budget that was of course signed before the end of '95 (which supports my original contention) that Newt's Congress reduced non DOD type and non Homeland security type spending.