David Weldon: “when I was a kid growing up, one of my favorite TV shows was Dragnet. There was a fellow on that show, Officer Friday…”

“when I was a kid growing up, one of my favorite TV shows was Dragnet. There was a fellow on that show, Officer Friday, and one of his expressions that I liked, if he was getting a lot of extraneous information he would just say just ``The facts, ma'am. We need the facts.'' I would like to get into a little bit of the facts surrounding the so-called arrest of these innocent senior citizens at the Committee on Commerce meeting yesterday. When I heard about this, I was indeed myself concerned, and I asked some of the members of the Committee on Commerce what went on, and the Committee on Commerce hearing was disrupted by a group of seniors who just happened to be a group of seniors affiliated with a group called the National Council of Senior Citizens, which is a very liberal left wing organization which this previous Democratic-led Congress had been giving about $75 million a year to for the express purpose of lobbying the Congress to spend more and more and more money. Yes, you the taxpayers were having your tax dollars given to an organization that was devoting its efforts full time to lobbying the Government to engage in more deficit spending. This group, this innocent group of seniors, who came in were quietly and politely asked to leave, not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, not five times, but six times they were asked to leave the Committee on Commerce meeting because they were interrupting the hearing.”