Kendrick Meek: “Okay. A 33-year-old senior moment. I just wanted to mention something real quick that I think is important. There is…”

“Okay. A 33-year-old senior moment. I just wanted to mention something real quick that I think is important. There is going to be a lot of talk tomorrow. We are going to do some good legislation. We have stem cell research that is coming up, and we have negotiating as it relates to prescription drugs is coming up before the weekend. Something that is going to be common now, was uncommon in the 109th Congress, we are actually going to work a 5-day work week or a 4-day work week as it relates to the congressional calendar. But I just want to mention something. I don't want us to leave this floor tonight unless we have an opportunity to talk about what the President's going to talk about an hour or so from now. I think it is important. I have served, Mr. Ryan and I have served on Armed Services in the last two Congresses; and you, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have served here in the last Congress and now this Congress at war. Mr. Delahunt, you were here when this House voted to give the President authority to go or not, what have you. And now we are after the election in November, the American people, everyone thought, Mr. Speaker, that the election was going to be about the economy. They thought it was going to be about health care. They thought it was going to be about whatever the issue may be. But it was about Iraq, and it was about the decisions that were made, and the lack thereof, out of this Congress of asking the questions and oversight.”