Kendrick Meek: “What I am glad to hear and see, especially the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), many times I think people know the…”

“What I am glad to hear and see, especially the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), many times I think people know the glory, but they do not know the story. The story is real. The story is, as one comedian said, you had to move back in with your parents, write your name on the orange juice container, and sleep in the den. But you had to do it. The real issue is, especially for a majority of this Congress on the Republican side, standing firm to make sure that millionaires receive a permanent tax break, so that we would have in the very near future a $7.1 trillion deficit. I am looking for the deficit hawks every day. I am saying, where are they? The folks that used to take the floor on the other side, the Republican side used to jump up and talk about the deficit every 2 minutes, when it was this Congress, the Democratically controlled Congress that balanced the budget. President Clinton balanced the budget that put forth the opportunities for young people. And when we are talking about young people, I say to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), we are talking about you. We are talking about what you have to pay, what your constituents have to pay, my constituents, towards educating their children in the real world. In the real world, many of these individuals that we are talking about here tonight, they cannot walk into a conventional bank and say, I want to get a loan for my children's education. They have to go and mortgage their homes. They get a second mortgage.”