Kendrick Meek: “This is what we have done, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. We are living…”

“This is what we have done, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. We are living with the highest deficit in the history of the republic. We are standing and we are doing this, and what goes back to this article that I was addressing a little while ago, it talked about the fact that there is no checks and balances. I just want to remind the Members, since some might have maybe not fully focused on what is happening, the Senate is Republican- controlled. The House is definitely Republican-controlled. The White House, we know for sure that it is under Republican control, and when we see the amount of money that is now having to be spent, I am just going to take Katrina. I do want to talk about health care, and I know the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) has the next hour, and I just want to talk a little bit about health care again. But I can tell you this, I am going to take Katrina for an instance, $200 billion plus. A big part of that is the fact that Louisiana or New Orleans were flooded, under water. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were displaced. Two things happened there. Americans died but two things happened there.…”