Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Spratt, I am so glad that you are here because here I hold a letter that former Secretary Snow wrote you about the…”

I can see it even going down to almost health care employment discrimination saying, well, if you have a preexisting condition, I don't need you in my group or in my company because you are going to cost us all more.

If climate change does have an effect on our economy and our future; and, as you know, as we look at this cap and trade piece, we have to look at some of the extreme weather events that we have experienced in Florida and throughout the…

One of the things I want to bring to the attention of the Committee is that unemployment in Florida is 9.4 percent, and in other parts of the State it's even higher.

When you run into these kinds of situations, and folks start saying, 'Well, I'm more loyal to my own personal principle,' meanwhile, they're not maxed out on their credit cards, they're not waiting in line for a job.