Kendrick Meek: “What a country. Let me just, if the gentleman would start, I started out with some opening comments, just to kind of…”

“What a country. Let me just, if the gentleman would start, I started out with some opening comments, just to kind of share with the American people and the Members of the House our purpose for being here. Once again, we pay all respect and opportunity to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Democratic leader, that has made a commitment that young people in America will have a time on this floor. This is just an hour. They are going to have time they have not had in the past so we can raise those issues to the level of the national debate, have people here in this Congress pay respect and treat 30-somethings on down to 18 or 16 or 15, those that are looking to participate in this democracy that we serve under, have them use their power that they have as it relates to voter registration cards, have them use their power in talking with their Member of Congress, to let it be known that throughout they have issues, they have concerns.”