Kendrick Meek: “I must say that we have to make sure that we frame this correctly, that we are in the minority. The Democrats are in the…”

“I must say that we have to make sure that we frame this correctly, that we are in the minority. The Democrats are in the minority in the House and have been during the time of that great dive that we see on that chart that the gentleman just illustrated to the Members of the House. We have a great deal of responsibility. We are serving in the House, in the legislative branch, that is overseeing, or watching, I should say, the largest deficit in the history of the Republic. Not once before was it like this. This is the largest deficit in the history of the Republic. Can the gentleman put the chart back up on 'backsliding into the deficit ditch?' I think this is important, because I think that nose-dive, you can see in the blue you have President Bush-1. You have the green, Bill Clinton and the Democratic House and other body that did what it took when the going was tough to say that we wanted to bring about surpluses.”