Starting in 1955, it pledged to give away its entire surplus, after taxes and operating expenses.
"No one is suggesting we pass the entire surplus back to the taxpayers," he says.
That is more than the entire surplus over the next 10 years.
"If the entire surplus is spent, then there is no money left over for new initiatives on education," he argued.
The entire surplus will be used during the fiscal year that begins July 1.
When you add it all up, he's spent the entire surplus on bigger government.
These three initiatives alone could eat up the entire surplus outside Social Security and cast the rest of the government into the red.
The steel pensions alone nearly wiped out the agency's entire surplus.
The entire surplus will be rolled over into the next fiscal year.
Not only the entire surplus, but a trillion dollars more than the surplus.