Kendrick Meek: “Since you got fired up about this, I just want to get started. I am going to read the last couple of lines of this…”

“Since you got fired up about this, I just want to get started. I am going to read the last couple of lines of this article because we are running out of time. But when it comes to that sort of wisdom and courage in Washington, DC, we suffer another deficit, and what this person is saying is that we have to have leadership in this chamber that is willing to enforce it. Now, let me just say this very quickly. I think it is important in our last 5 minutes to talk about being responsible. This is the U.S. Department of Treasury. This is not the Kendrick Meek report or Tim Ryan or the 30 Something Working Group report. This is on our Web site and this is on the U.S. Treasury's Web site if you want to go in and find it and crunch the numbers. President Bush and the Republican Congress, from 2001 to 2005, have borrowed from foreign Nations $1.05 trillion. In 4 years, 4 years, Mr. Speaker, $1.05 trillion, you see the President and the Republican Congress. Forty-two Presidents that you see here, some are wearing wigs, $1.01 trillion, they were only able to borrow from foreign Nations in 224 years. So that meant the President has accomplished something that 42 Presidents before him have not been able to accomplish. {time} 2240 But the Great Depression, World War I, World War II and a number of conflicts, he dethroned, that is our new one, Mr. Chapman gave it to us, third-party validator he has dethroned 42 Presidents and Congresses before it with the record-breaking borrowing.…”