Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Mr. Murphy, this process we are going through in trying to win over the 15 Republicans kind of reminds me of the lessons…”

“Mr. Murphy, this process we are going through in trying to win over the 15 Republicans kind of reminds me of the lessons my parents taught me when I was a little kid. You would struggle, Madam Speaker, with what was really right from wrong and to understand the values that your parents were instilling. I know I did. I would ask my mom on tough questions: How am I going to know I did the right thing? What is the guidepost I should use? That is the kind of lessons parents teach their kids all the time. I remember so vividly my mom and dad telling me you have to be able to go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see staring back at you. You have to know that your conscience is not going to gnaw at you. There are plenty of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who will thump their chests and use a lot of bravado, false bravado, I would add, and say, I can live with myself. I am doing the right thing. But you know in your heart of hearts when you go to sleep at night and you are the only one in the room with yourself whether or not you have done the right thing. I am desperately hopeful they will listen to that inner voice, because you know your inner voice has to be telling you, if they truly have the values that they say they have as opposed to the ones that are reflected in many of their votes, that they will do the right thing, at least 15 of them, and vote to override the President's veto.”