Chris Murphy: “So here is what those of us who are new to this Chamber sort of see from the outside, and I think it probably matches up…”

“So here is what those of us who are new to this Chamber sort of see from the outside, and I think it probably matches up with what Mr. Ryan and Mr. Meek keep seeing from the inside. What used to happen here was that the agenda that came before the House was decided essentially by folks sitting in the third floor of the Republican National Committee, a bunch of Republican Party insiders who decided that they were going to put a Republican agenda on the floor. They were going to put a party agenda on the floor at the exclusion of the minority party. So what you saw, for those us that turned on C-SPAN late at night when we were not watching the 30-somethings, we saw votes go up on the screen. And everybody sees those C-SPAN votes where they have got Republicans in one column, Democrats in the other column. You see all the Republicans voting one way, all the Democrats voting the other way, vote after vote after vote, because what was being put before this House was a Republican agenda. Occasionally you would have some people slide over, but by and large that is what you saw. Here is the difference. The agenda that was part of the first 100 hours and the agenda that was behind the continuing resolution, as Mr. Meek says, if we have anything to do with it, the agenda that will underlie the budget that finally arrives before this body is not going to be a Democratic agenda. It is not going to be a Democratic budget. It is going to be a people's agenda.”