Kendrick Meek: “as I look at the printed material that I have before me, I cannot help but say this maybe is at the crisis level. Maybe…”

“as I look at the printed material that I have before me, I cannot help but say this maybe is at the crisis level. Maybe what the gentleman just pointed out, maybe the fact that we have the highest deficit in the history of the Republic, maybe because we have a number of Americans that are still cutting pills in half after we, the Congress, or the majority side, has said we have done all that we can do. Maybe that is the crisis. Maybe it is important to let not only the majority side know, but also the American people know that it is about who is running this House and who is not raising an objection to what has happened already, let alone what is going to continue to happen. If left up to the mechanics of the majority right now, 41 percent will be the early years of foreign countries buying our debt. Mr. Speaker, it may very well go to 55 percent if the American people do not hold us accountable for the decisions we are making, or the decisions we are not making. I think it is important, and we have to talk a little bit about extreme measures in the Congress. We know there are a number of issues that have come before us, and the American people are saying, When are you going to do something about the problems that we talk about every day?…”