Kendrick Meek: “Ms. Wasserman Schultz, there have been in this Republican House, and I am just going to talk about President Bush being…”

“Ms. Wasserman Schultz, there have been in this Republican House, and I am just going to talk about President Bush being in office, this Republican majority, I am going to point the letters out and let you go ahead and drive your point. December 29, a letter written, Mr. Speaker, in the closing days of 2005, the closing days, the 29th. Americans think about what they were doing on the 29th. Many Americans were off work, those that had jobs and what have you, celebrating with their families, thinking about the new year. Secretary Snow found his way to the office to send this letter to one of our colleagues over in the Congress, over in the Senate, that says, ``We must raise the debt limit or we will be unable to continue to finance government operations.'' That is just for this round. I mean, I think it is important that we get staff to be able to get the rest of the letters that Secretary Snow wrote. Here is a letter just written in February, February 16. This letter is to the ranking member, Mr. John Spratt, who is the ranking member on the Democratic side, again saying, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, we must do this now, Mr. Speaker, saying we must raise this debt limit as soon as possible or they are going to have to go into the Federal retirement system and stop paying into that system. I want to say to the Federal workers, because we believe in third party validators and also believe in telling the truth, the Secretary goes on to say, Ms.…”