Quote Originally Posted by rrutter81
After Gingrich and the Reps. swept into office in 94 with the "contract with America", Clinton worked with Congress to balance it. Don't forget that Clinton pushed the largest tax increase in US history in his first 2 years which led to the Reps. winning Congress for the first time in 42 years in 94.

You have to take in to account everything instead of skewing the LARGEST tax increase in U.S. history vs spending.
But the budget was balanced nonetheless, forget all these little stupid partisan explanations.. the data is straight forward.