Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Ryan, I just get so excited whenever you do your own research, and you find quotes and all. But I can tell you…”

“Mr. Ryan, I just get so excited whenever you do your own research, and you find quotes and all. But I can tell you what's important here is to make sure that we follow through on what we told the American people. The American people voted for representation, and I am not just talking about proud Democrats, Republicans, independents, some young people that voted for the first time in their lives because they believe that there will be balance in this democracy that we call on. So many of the issues that we talk about here, and so many issues that are within our first 100 hours that we want to work on, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, and that we said we would do in our Six in 2006 plan, the American people said they were for it overwhelmingly. We have to be able to understand here in this House that we would carry out what we said would do. Now that is a paradigm shift here in this U.S. House. A lot has been said. Very little has been done, but we are moving in that direction. I was in a meeting earlier today and saying that we need an escalation in the truth and not the troops. We need an escalation in the truth and not the troops. The truth is that the U.K. is pulling 3,000 troops out by May. The truth is, several other countries that are, quote/unquote, allies in Iraq, they are paying ransom for their troops that are captured by insurgents, because of the lack of security there.”