Kendrick Meek: “We have got to have a chart. Because, folks, they cannot quite capture those numbers on that small piece of paper you…”

“We have got to have a chart. Because, folks, they cannot quite capture those numbers on that small piece of paper you have. If a Member was in his office or her office watching us here on the floor, we want them to visually see their track record on what they have done. It reminds me of when the President flew over the Hurricane Katrina- affected area and came back to the White House and said, We are sending food and water down, and blankets, and this is just the beginning. Well, that was 3 days after the storm. And I can tell you this right now, in the heat of the summer, I do not know what good blankets would have done, but that is a whole other issue. The bottom line is, just because they say it, and I am taking from Gingrich, just because they say it, ``they'' is what Mr. Gingrich is calling the Republican majority, just because they say it does not necessarily mean that it is true. It does not necessarily mean, just because they say it, that it is true. I will share what Mr. Gingrich has called this Republican majority. We do not have to do it; Republicans and Americans are saying it. This is the former Speaker of the House, Mr. Speaker, who said in the Knight Ridder newspaper, Friday, March 31, 2006, ``They,'' talking about the Republican majority, ``are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that cannot function.'' And this is what we are seeing, Mr. Delahunt. Folks coming to the floor seeing things that they know are altered. They are altering it.…”