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Pete Hoekstra: “Washington, D.C., as an institution has become tone deaf. And you've got solutions. You know what the solutions are. You…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
Washington, D.C., as an institution has become tone deaf. And you've got solutions. You know what the solutions are. You can fix the problem in Michigan, you can fix the problem in Missouri. It's as simple as what JFK did, what Ronald Reagan did, what Bush did, and that is get off the spending, get off the taxing, and give the American public a chance.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
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govinfo.gov
Feb 3, 2010

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The speaker addresses the need for fiscal responsibility and solutions to economic problems.

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