Kendrick Meek: “I see the gentleman from California (Chairman Dreier) wants us to yield for a minute here, so I yield to the chairman.”

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

If climate change does have an effect on our economy and our future; and, as you know, as we look at this cap and trade piece, we have to look at some of the extreme weather events that we have experienced in Florida and throughout the…

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…

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.