Kendrick Meek: “Not one Republican vote in passing the Democratic balanced budget plan. Mr. Speaker, that is fact, not fiction.”

When you run into these kinds of situations, and folks start saying, 'Well, I'm more loyal to my own personal principle,' meanwhile, they're not maxed out on their credit cards, they're not waiting in line for a job.

I can see it even going down to almost health care employment discrimination saying, well, if you have a preexisting condition, I don't need you in my group or in my company because you are going to cost us all more.

One of the things I want to bring to the attention of the Committee is that unemployment in Florida is 9.4 percent, and in other parts of the State it's even higher.

Families that know what it means to punch in and punch out every day, some individuals that are really struggling in rural Florida, they need that tax credit, they need that assistance.