Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Vice Chairman, I just want to thank you for your continued leadership, and point out one fact before I go to my…”

“Mr. Vice Chairman, I just want to thank you for your continued leadership, and point out one fact before I go to my chart over here. This is not an issue as it relates to, but in the 30-something Working Group, and let me just back up. In the 30-something Working Group, we like to have third-party validators. We like to have information so Members know exactly what they are voting on. We all have to go back home and talk to our constituents about the things that we have accomplished, and the resources we brought back to our district, and where we stood up on behalf of those that needed us to stand up for them. There have been 47 key measures that have passed, 79 percent bipartisan consensus. I think that is important because what you are talking about as it relates to the Senate and what I have experienced serving with you in the 108th Congress and 109th Congress, we knew where our place was in those Congresses. We knew it was hard to bring a consensus vote because the leadership on the Republican side would fix the deck so we wouldn't have consensus, we wouldn't have bipartisanship. With Speaker Pelosi, who encouraged bipartisanship where we can come together on issues, and these are major issues, these are not post offices.”