Kendrick Meek: “They will not have a choice because we handed it to them. We gave it to them. So the Republican majority once again uses…”

“They will not have a choice because we handed it to them. We gave it to them. So the Republican majority once again uses this book. And the power that they have on the majority side to close the rule, the power the people gave to them, is to prevent us from saying, Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk that will replace the cuts that are made to veterans, that will replace the cuts made to child enforcement. Mr. Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk that will make sure that those oil companies that are celebrating historic record profits, that we not only talk about those record profits here in Congress, that we do something about it; and we make sure that those who cannot afford heating oil and LP gas this winter can receive a break on that. They stopped that from happening. So when you start talking about where are the Democrats, where are their ideas? Well, guess what? We are not going to tell you that last night at 10 p.m., while some of you all were home asleep, we got them good. We shut them down. We put forth a rule that they cannot even introduce their ideas. And you know why they did it? Because they might very well have lost some of their Members, who would have had to take this card out and put it in these machines behind these chairs and vote for their constituents and the American people.”