What happens through this process is what you outline. We get to a surplus in 1998, or we get to a balance or close to a balance without taking into account Social Security, which is a very, very positive step. When I first came here in 1993, we were looking at increasing taxes, and we were looking at increasing spending, and we were looking at deficits of $300 billion as far as the eye could see.
Discussing the budget surplus and fiscal policy during a speech on the House floor.
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The bridge will actually be paid for by the folks who are using the bridge.
Hopefully on a number of these issues we reach resolution sooner rather than later, but it's already taken 14 months and we haven't seen significant progress.
Next year, hopefully we can all take a toast of American bourbon legally in the province of Ontario," Hoekstra said. "And toast the friendship and the relationship between the United States and Canada."
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