Kendrick Meek: “let me just say this. We are both going to be in the Committee on Armed Services tomorrow late into the night marking up…”

“let me just say this. We are both going to be in the Committee on Armed Services tomorrow late into the night marking up or creating the Committee on Armed Services for the United States of America authorization bill to protect the American public, to make sure our men and women that are in harm's way get what they need, to make sure that we do all of the things that we need to do to defend this country, adding $5 trillion to the debt and making decisions that should not be made. And I just want to say, at the end of the legislative business of every week, we have our whip, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) come to the floor with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay), and they talk about the business of next week and what is going to happen. I hope when it comes down to Social Security that there is a bipartisan effort to not only make sure that we pay for what we do or have a plan to pay for what we do as it relates to borrowing the money that we are going to have to use to make sure that we make Social Security stronger and better, but there is no discussion about, well, next week we are going to talk about private accounts, because that is going to be a sad day in this Congress. I will also say this, that it is important for people to understand that on the Democratic side, and I mentioned the gentlewoman from California (Leader Pelosi) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr.…”