Pete Hoekstra: “Thank you. It is good to be here tonight and talk about what we are actually going to try to accomplish tomorrow. I…”

“Thank you. It is good to be here tonight and talk about what we are actually going to try to accomplish tomorrow. I think tomorrow is going to provide many of us in the House a fantastic opportunity by signing the discharge petition, which will bring your bill to the floor, A to Z. I think it is important to reiterate again what we are trying to do. We are trying to get 56 hours of debate. We are trying to get and provide for every Member of this Chamber the opportunity to bring an amendment to the floor to cut spending, so that we can go back to our constituents later this year and show that we as a Congress really have taken more seriously the need to fix the deficit. I have got some documents in front of me that show that it can be done. Specifically the Concord Coalition. But I think it is important to recognize what the Concord Coalition and our own GAO says and all that, that in the year 2000, we will still be in debt. And between now and the year 2000, we are going to continue deficit spending, we are going to continue to accumulate dollars of debt. And, as our colleague from Oklahoma stated, we are stealing from the next generation. We are taking an phenomenal amount of money from the next generation and spending it on ourselves. The Concord Coalition goes through and talks about a way that by the year 2000 we can fix the deficit, we can get it down to zero.”