Pete Hoekstra: “Yes. Lots of innovation going on. I think my colleagues have to take a look at we are trying to solve a complex problem.…”

“Yes. Lots of innovation going on. I think my colleagues have to take a look at we are trying to solve a complex problem. It has a very human impact, and we have to ask the question: When you're thinking of needing a creative solution, you want innovation to address a complex problem, you want a good management structure. When you put those things in place, or you put those words describing a process, and then you want quality control and cost control, who do you think of? If the answer is: ``You know, I really think that that describes the Federal Government,'' then I think this, as my colleague knows, the President's health care plan, is exactly what they want. And I say to my colleagues, if you think--when the gentlewoman mentioned those kinds of words--if you think, boy, you know, that's kind of like an Apple computer; that's the kind of person I want, Steven Jobs; I want him solving the health care crisis--he is not with Apple anymore--but that's the kind of energy and innovation that I want going after the health care crisis in companies around the country, you know a guy that started with a vision of going after the goliath in the computer industry, IBM, and solved it with a novel, creative approach, and 20 years later, you know, is a giant in the computer business.”