Kendrick Meek: “This will not only help individuals out of poverty, but this will help educate America.”

One of the things I want to bring to the attention of the Committee is that unemployment in Florida is 9.4 percent, and in other parts of the State it's even higher.

When you run into these kinds of situations, and folks start saying, 'Well, I'm more loyal to my own personal principle,' meanwhile, they're not maxed out on their credit cards, they're not waiting in line for a job.

I can see it even going down to almost health care employment discrimination saying, well, if you have a preexisting condition, I don't need you in my group or in my company because you are going to cost us all more.

I want to commend the Administration for doing something that we haven't done in a very long time here in Washington, D.C., especially from the executive branch, and that is to share with the American people the truth.