Pete Hoekstra: “I think it is interesting. I have two of my colleagues who came here in January 1993, the three of us came here. What we…”

“I think it is interesting. I have two of my colleagues who came here in January 1993, the three of us came here. What we were faced with was raising taxes, growing rapidly the size of government, nationalizing health care, no concern about the deficit, deficits in the $200 to $300 billion range as far as we could see. It is really amazing. I think if we would reflect back to where we thought, I still remember walking about across the street saying, how can we be part of this? Four and a half years later we are getting close to a surplus. We are cutting taxes. This is a sea change. As my colleague said, this is like popcorn. We are debating the right issues. This is not enough right now, but we have a much different debate than what we had in 1993.”