Debbie Wasserman Schultz

That is real money. I do not know a lot of people who can just reach into their pocket or go down to their local bank branch and yank out $5,800.

And subsequently made a liar out of Mr. McClellan. He is the spokesperson standing in front of the American people and the White House press corps. In fact, I heard an exchange yesterday between him and the White House press corps where he…

He is still on the payroll being paid a $148,000-a-year contract for another 30 days.

What has become clear as of today is that the culture of corruption in the party and this administration and the leadership in this institution has become institutionalized. It runs deep.

If I can close us out by saying that their priorities are wrong. It is not an independent Katrina Commission; it is Katrina, Wilma, Rita. We have got to do better.

Do you know what else we are for? We are for honesty. We are for honesty in government. We are for ridding this institution of the culture of corruption that has consumed it in recent weeks and months.

That is how out of touch this administration is. They are that badly out of touch, and that is why the system cries out for reform. We have to make sure we reform the system so that we can restore people's confidence and that they…

Let us explain what we are talking about. In the press today there was an e-mail exchange revealed between the spokesperson of FEMA and then Under Secretary Brown where he was appalled that Secretary Chertoff had made him, I think it was…

No, I was just going to suggest that you give out the website. And we always encourage people who watch us each week to contact us, give us your thoughts and opinions and please let Members know.

Pork. We will substitute any appropriate word. We have to make sure that we provide some real relief to the minivan moms and dads across this country.

Tomorrow they will be trying to create the mythology for the American people that this is going to do something to reduce gas prices.

To stay on Davis-Bacon for a second, there was also some irony in the President's waiver because last year when it was 2004 and we were in advance of a Presidential election, he took great pains at expressing his deep affection for Florida…

I am sorry, we are all just champing at the bit tonight, but including in a region where the plight of over 100,000 people after the hurricane was the result of their poverty. So now we are going to go in, and the second proposal for…

It would be like if Enron executives or Tyco executives suggested that they would do the investigation on what went wrong with their two companies themselves, the corporate executives.

I think that we have demonstrated here tonight, as we will in the future, that there are so many issues facing our generation, and we need to make sure that we take this country back in the right direction so that when our generation…

There is not a lot more that can be said other than that I think that we need to continue to come to this floor every week and I can commit to you that I will join you and make sure that we can continue to highlight the direction that they…

I just appreciate the gentleman from South Carolina's (Mr. Spratt) and the gentleman from Florida's (Mr. Meek) leadership and the opportunity for us to help explain to our generation what the ramifications will be if the President's…

What I wanted to bring out was exactly what the gentleman was talking about. We have a problem that needs to be addressed. But we can not throw our Nation's retirement security, our constituents' retirement security, to the whims of the…

I thank both of these gentlemen. I am losing the prop board here, but I wanted to close by quoting the President. He said, ``Leadership means not passing problems on to future generations and future Presidents.'' This plan passes trillions…

My colleague and I from Florida are parents, and I know the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryun) probably plans one day to be a parent. This is the 30-something Working Group.

That is an important point, and I appreciate the gentleman making that point. But the point is that from one day to the next, we had a 200-point swing. Now, is that what people are going to be comfortable with in terms of their retirement…

I want to ask the gentleman because the gentleman was here. The thing I talked about and heard about on the campaign trail last year was how we ended up with a Medicare bill that added a prescription drug benefit but did not allow, in fact…

And the report said gross misrepresentation, grossly inaccurate facts when it comes to reports of there being weapons of mass destruction.

There is an obvious conflict here between the president's feelings on this matter now, as compared to when he was governor of Texas.

Actually what I want to close with is I want to quote the President because the President has said that leadership means not passing problems on to future generations and future Presidents. And I take him at his word, and I am hopeful that…