Kendrick Meek: “You are 110 percent right, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. We can't say it enough. The bottom line is the message that we are…”

“You are 110 percent right, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. We can't say it enough. The bottom line is the message that we are giving out to the American people and to all the Republican majority: As a matter of fact, we don't need permission from the Republican majority to lead; we just need the numbers in this House to lead. And we are leading in many ways. We call the first play when it comes down to many of the pieces of legislation that move through this House of Representatives and bringing some level of accountability to it. Sometimes we are successful, Madam Speaker, in getting an amendment or two onto a piece of legislation because it is so abundantly clear the reason why they are useful to a piece of legislation. But why does it have to be abundantly clear? Why can't it just be good governance? Why can't it just be a bipartisan approach? I will tell you, and I commit, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Delahunt, when we get in the majority which--I believe the American people will start asking questions and will take action against those that are allowing this history in all the wrong ways to take place, and elect Democrats to be able to allow us to come here and run this House in the way that all the American people can be proud and feel accountable, we will not bow down to the strong special interests and say, well, wait, we have to take care of them and then we will take care of you.…”