Alan Grayson: “Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I want to share something with the Representative from Wisconsin and with the…”

“Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I want to share something with the Representative from Wisconsin and with the Chair. We labor here under an awful barrier, and that barrier is this: we are required to actually be original. I sometimes am unable to carry that burden, and I found something this Saturday that I think was so important, so well written, so profound that I am going to yield to an article that I read on Saturday in the Huffington Post, written by Jason Linkins and Zach Carter, called ``Dow Jones Hits `Record High' Thanks to Strong Performances from Smoke, Mirrors Sectors.'' I'd like to share that with the gentleman from Wisconsin, the Chair, and with anyone else who just might happen to be listening right now. The article reads as follows: This week, amid the hullabaloo over President Barack Obama's Deficit Dinner Diplomacy and Senator Rand Paul's 13- hour filibuster-cum-dissertation on drone strikes and civil liberties, financial news-watchers touted a milestone in their lives of Market Worship. We speak, of course, of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which on Tuesday hit an ``all- time high'' of 14,253. The good times rolled steadily on through the week, and the Dow closed Friday at 14,397. Of course, the notion that these were ``record'' highs was not, strictly speaking, true.…”