Claim: "We went from a $5.6 trillion surplus that George Bush inherited to over ... $11-plus trillion debt when George Bush left office."
Fact-check: Steny Hoyer says George W. Bush inherited $5.6 trillion surplus from Bill Clinton
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-06-02T00:00:00