The big issue in Washington was what to do with the budget surplus.
For the first time since 1969, we will have a budget surplus.
Texas is far from alone in having a budget surplus.
The move was made possible because the Government is in its second year of budget surplus.
Next year there will be a $63 billion budget surplus.
They also helped create a budget surplus, but at a cost.
Is this the best way to spend part of the budget surplus?
Next year was supposed to bring a Federal budget surplus of about $14 billion, the first in 30 years.
And it may require using some of the budget surplus for a tax cut.
This can be done if the country runs a budget surplus.