Kendrick Meek: “It must have been faxed. March 6, this letter is very, very alarming. As you can see through our discussion, we have…”

“It must have been faxed. March 6, this letter is very, very alarming. As you can see through our discussion, we have stamped the rubber stamp Congress onto it. We have this rubber stamp, and it should be very familiar to the Members right now. This is about the fact that they are going to do exactly what the administration asked them to do, and that is why we are in this situation and not able to meet our obligations. We are going to go down memory lane real quickly. This is saying for the first time in U.S. history we will not be able to meet our Federal Government obligation, our financial obligations. That means paying our bills if the debt ceiling is not raised immediately. The Secretary is going into in this letter that he is going to have to use his special powers that he has been given to divert and no longer pay into and suspend paying into not only the G Fund but other governmental accounts, and it has to happen as soon as possible. Mr. Ryan, how did we get into this situation, and who do we owe? How did we make history? And when I say ``we,'' the Republican majority. Well, they made history by following the President, and by following the President, they made it in a wrong way, Mr. Speaker.…”