Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Ryan, you did take it like a man. We were watching the game together, and it was great for college football and…”

“Mr. Ryan, you did take it like a man. We were watching the game together, and it was great for college football and great for all of us here in the country to see the underdog win. And it kind of tells our story here in the U.S. House of Representatives. And I just want to thank everyone on behalf of all of us. But tonight we are going to take a moment because, Mr. Speaker, when we come back to the floor, we have a number of freshmen that are coming in that are new 30-somethings that were elected in this election, and they are going to come to the floor. I believe, and all of us in 30-Something Working Group believe, that we were effective in the 108th and the 109th Congress, communicating with the American people. We want to thank not only the Speaker but also the majority leader, Mr. Hoyer; and also Mr. Clyburn, who was our Democratic leader, now our Democratic whip; and now Mr. Emanuel for his good work, who is our chairman of the Democratic Caucus; and Mr. Larson, who is the vice chairman, for all the support they gave the 30-Something Working Group, including the Members on the Democratic side of the aisle. We talked about what we would do, Mr. Speaker, if we had the opportunity to get into the majority. And I am happy to report that we talked about putting in standards on PAYGO, making sure that whatever we appropriated, wherever we spend, that we also identify how we are going to pay for it so that we can get away from owing all of these countries money as we owe now.”