Kendrick Meek: “It cannot be the water because I am drinking the water here in the Capitol, and I am not running around saying that we…”

“It cannot be the water because I am drinking the water here in the Capitol, and I am not running around saying that we need to protect billionaires. I also want to talk about, and I do not want folks to get confused there were no recommendations; there was a bill dropped today by the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) dealing with contractor fraud, making sure that the victims in the Gulf States do not become victims again, not by Hurricane Rita but Hurricane Washington, D.C. that is going to take away the opportunities that will come out of tragedy. And that is a very substantial bill, something that I can say from the Democratic side of the aisle that we have been putting out proposal after proposal, day after day. If we were in charge, if we were the committee chairpersons, if we had a member of our caucus that was the majority leader, it would not be a letter, it would not be a proposal on an idea; the American people will see action carried out and will give another voice in this perspective. Let me mention something about Davis-Bacon, and let me say the Congressional Research Service, I was reading in the newspaper, some Members of Congress on the majority side were saying they are concerned about Davis-Bacon because of the unions. Let us do ``operation clearup'' here. We had the Congressional Research Service look at that.…”