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On the recordFebruary 26, 1998
I cannot tell you the excitement that I feel to see first term Member, a second term Member, and it is my third term, and just reflecting back on when I came to Washington in 1993, if we had projected in 1993 that we would be approaching the point where we would be talking about what to do with the surplus and that we would be there by 1998 or 1999 people would have said you are crazy, because if you remember back.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Reflecting on the budget surplus during a discussion in Congress.

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