Kendrick Meek: “All the veterans organizations stand firmly with him, but guess what? They stand firmly with him off the committee right…”

“All the veterans organizations stand firmly with him, but guess what? They stand firmly with him off the committee right now, because that is where he is. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) is right. I am glad he corrected me. Not only was he removed as chairman, his stationery does not even have the name of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs on it any more because they moved him off the committee. So I am saying that I do not, and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) does not, and the 30-something Working Group does not apologize for bringing light to the issue of the fact that we are going to talk about veterans and talk about mom and apple pie and drape ourselves in the flag and get all choked up down here and raise our voice talking about how we love the veterans. Well, the real deal comes down to who is running the House, what the veterans are getting and what they are not getting. And I will tell my colleagues right now, they are not getting that. Now, I am going to yield back to the gentleman, but I have a few points that we must make on Social Security before we leave that, because the veterans issue, we can go on for 12 hours on that. We also have to talk about Mr. Rove and what he is sharing with members of the media, putting CIA agents in jeopardy. But that is a whole other issue. It is a serious issue that we have to deal with, especially in the middle of this effort against terrorism, global terrorism.…”