John Garamendi: “It is good to be back here on the floor to talk about a good deal, a better deal, and a raw deal. But before I get into…”

“It is good to be back here on the floor to talk about a good deal, a better deal, and a raw deal. But before I get into a discussion about how we can move this Nation forward and how our colleagues on the other side are really taking us in the wrong direction, I want to put this up for us to take a look at. I suspect I caught your attention having it upside down. I did that on purpose. I often start these discussions with this. It is from FDR, one of his great speeches. He said: ``The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.'' I keep coming to this because it is a statement of values. It is a statement of direction. It is a statement of what I believe we should be doing as Members of Congress and as leaders of this Nation.…”