Kendrick Meek: “I want to thank this Congress. I love you very much. But it is very apparent that from the very beginning you have not…”

I want to deal with the arguments against doing something, versus not doing anything at all.

The bottom line is, you have your back up against the wall, you have to make a decision, you have to do it now.

Madam Speaker, I know that you have heard me before say that bipartisanship is only achieved when the majority allows it. I have said that in the two previous Congresses, hoping that Republican leadership will work with the Democratic…

We are not here drinking the tea. I mean, we are not here saying, Oh, let's just all link up together and flowers falling from the ceiling and all and that we are working in a bipartisan way. What we are doing is saying that we are working…