claim: says he was "one of the chief architects" of balancing the federal budget.
author: john kasich
evidence_1: oct 9, 2015 ... john kasich's claim that there was a '$5 trillion surplus' when he left washington  ... “i was there [federal government] in the '90s when we actually got things done.  ... and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it ...  readers asked us to fact-check this claim by kasich after he said it ...
evidence_2: oct 28, 2015 ... john kasich of ohio said he was the chief architect of the balanced ... ted cruz  says that voters say they want a reformer, but that he is the only one on .....  attacks on the fed and the gold standard (for the ron paul acolytes) ...
evidence_3: oct 31, 2010 ... "kasich," the ad says, "was the architect who balanced the budget, cut ... though it  more helpfully calls kasich "chief architect of the 1997 balanced budget. ... 2015,  a bipartisan agreement to balance the federal budget by the year 2002. ... clinton  said he and congressional democrats deserved the credit for ...
evidence_4: feb 12, 2016 ... ... “one of the chief architects” of a successful effort to balance the budget in 1997  ... those ads, as well as one on the bush campaign website, all cite a report ...  when he says overall, he's talking about the all-funds budget. ... “federal  spending — besides medicaid — is not increasing in ohio that quickly.
evidence_5: dec 4, 2015 ... “i'm the only one on this stage that has a plan that would create jobs, cut taxes,  balance the budget.” and kasich is certainly saying some honest things about his  fellow ... “i balanced the budget in washington as a chief architect,” he ... a wide  catch-all category of general federal spending on scientific ...