Mark Harmon suggests a series of budgetary steps that truly would reduce the debt that we are piling up for future ...

And the surplus is based, as usual, on pipe-dream budget numbers, but then again, nobody’s interested in being a wet blanket. No, wait — Clinton is! “The projections could be wrong,” he said.

Back in 1997, after the smoke cleared, both the Clinton administration and the Republicans in Congress were able to claim some political credit for the resulting budget surpluses. But ...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The federal government may be able to boast some $230 billion in budget surplus this fiscal year if some projections hold true. President Clinton on Thursday said forecasts ...

There is short-term pain for long-term gain. Finally, the Clinton budget surplus can only be called that through a bit of trickery, narrowly defining the words. What is defined as the budget had a ...

the U.S. government eliminated a large budget deficit while Bill Clinton was president. This resulted in a budget surplus. In the 2000 fiscal year, revenue came in at $2.025 trillion, while the ...

Bill Clinton did it, too — the U.S. federal budget had a surplus between 1998 and 2001, the only time there's been a surplus since 1970. (The government's debt is $36.22 trillion at the time of ...

having delivered four consecutive budget surpluses — the last time there was a balanced federal budget. Touting its success, President Clinton said in his 1996 State of the Union address ...

Congress rarely passes budgets these days. The last president to preside over a budget surplus was Bill Clinton. Here are some budgetary steps that truly would reduce the debt that we are piling ...