Kendrick Meek: “So that is the reason why some of the Members even on the majority side are saying no can do: I am not going to disrupt…”

“So that is the reason why some of the Members even on the majority side are saying no can do: I am not going to disrupt my constituents and their way of life and add on to the party numbers of my district, because it is not right. And if it is not right, I do not care if you fly around for 160 days. It is not going to change as long as you are talking about gambling with the Social Security and the security of folks' retirement. So I can tell my colleague right now, I look forward to the day that Americans say, enough is enough, and that we do not have to speak from the position of saying, well, we are informing you; we will be actually doing it if we were in control of this House, and that is what the debate is about. It is about not only sharing with the Members that if they get into this whole issue of believing the hype on the privatization of Social Security and folks start losing benefits, they are making a career decision. They do not want to be in Congress, because I can tell my colleague right now, when folks say, listen, I do not know what I have been doing; maybe I have been voting politics over principle. Maybe I need to get back to voting principle over politics. Well, they say that the guy that was running against the other guy or the young lady, that they are tax and spend. Well, you know, the evidence does not necessarily add up to be that way.…”