On the recordDecember 8, 2022
You got to admit, a lot of people love Representative Keller. It has been fun, actually, watching them come up to the microphone and say actually sweet things about him. But the best thing is his granddaughter, my little girl just loves playing with her. That is something I do hope this body does more of in the future--our kids. In the last couple of years they haven't been here. Before the pandemic, we would look out and people would have their families here. I will tell you, that helped in the relationships. My little girl would go and jump on Maxine Waters' lap because she loved her necklace. I still have a great picture of that. Until this day, every time I see Ms. Waters she asks about my little girl. In some ways, it is those family units and how you build human relations in this body. Just a thought for what is left of the majority and those things. We need to sort of think about the things that bind us together once again as people. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Mr. Keller giving me a little bit of time here. Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons we are doing this is we have been trying to do a series of presentations, and I keep being fussed at that I should do them shorter because we are trying to throw out lots of ideas. For the last year, I have been coming behind the microphone and walking through just how terrified I am, and how terrified I believe all of us should be, on what is going on in the numbers. We are going to do the routine again.…
