Matt Salmon: “Thank you very much. First of all, I want to say what an honor it is to be sharing the dais with two such distinguished…”

“Thank you very much. First of all, I want to say what an honor it is to be sharing the dais with two such distinguished gentlemen who have given up their careers and sacrificed countless hours with their families to come to this body and not, as has been done before, be willing to ``kick the can down the road''; coming to make real change; coming to try to get our arms around the real problems that are confronting our society and us as a Nation. I would like to say that it is just a debt crisis, that it is just funding for our government. But I think we all know it is much more than that. It is about the freedoms that we hold. It is about everything that we hold dear--everything that every military person for the last 240 years has fought to defend--and that is the freedoms that our Founding Fathers envisioned when they started this great experiment. We don't want to let that experiment die. I am so honored to be able to serve with two gentlemen that take this seriously and are willing to do more than be politicians and risk those political careers to actually do what is right. What a novel idea for Washington, D.C. I would like to talk just a little bit about the genesis of the President's health care law when we talk about the constitutionality. They cooked this thing up at a time when they knew that time was running short. A new Senator had just been elected from Massachusetts, so they had to act very, very quickly, or they wouldn't be able to get by the cloture vote.…”