Kendrick Meek: “Sunflower seeds, what have you, but we cannot buy alternative fuels. Now, meanwhile, back at the ranch, I see the…”

“Sunflower seeds, what have you, but we cannot buy alternative fuels. Now, meanwhile, back at the ranch, I see the ExxonMobil CEO on The Today Show, and he is saying, oh, we believe in innovation and alternative fuels, but that is not what it is saying at the pump, Mr. Speaker. So I think that when we start looking at what is wrong with the Republican majority and what we are willing to do, if the American people sees fit to put Democrats in control of this House, that we will fight the big oil companies. We will make sure that there is no price gouging. It will not be a question of having to appoint a group to go out and look at this issue. They will no longer have the kind of open access special interests has had in this House and that is a fact. That is not fiction; that is fact. So I think it is important when you start looking at all the money that is being borrowed to fund the millionaire tax break, all the money that is being borrowed to make sure that special interests get their tax cut and their subsidies and all these things, meanwhile the American people are paying for it. I am not going to pull this stuff off the chart tonight, but these are the countries that are owning a part of the American apple pie due to the fact they want to have the great American giveaway.”