Kendrick Meek: “I just want to make sure, Mr. Ryan, that the American people understand what is happening in the present. We do not even…”

“I just want to make sure, Mr. Ryan, that the American people understand what is happening in the present. We do not even have to go as far back as what happened 4 or 5 years ago or what happened 2 years ago. We just have to talk about what is happening right now. Once again, this President could not do it by himself, Mr. Speaker, needed the partisan vote in this Chamber on the Republican side to accomplish $1.05 trillion in borrowing from foreign nations. Knocking on the door of China, saying can you help us, because we are fiscally irresponsible. That is what the debt ceiling letter comes from, Mr. Speaker. We did not write this letter. Democrats did not set this letter into motion. It was the Republican policies in this Republican House that set this policy into motion raising the debt ceiling, not paying as we go. This is not the responsibility of the minority on the Democratic side. It is the majority. I want to make sure, because we need to break this thing down in 1, 2, 3, A, B, C, so that no one can go back home and tell their constituents, well, you know, you have got a point there, but I did not quite catch that, and I did not know that we have borrowed $1.05 trillion more than 42 Presidents before this President, 42 other administrators before this President, $1.05 trillion that other Presidents and administrations and Congresses have borrowed from foreign nations in 224 years. Folks say, well, you all act like you are alarmed by this. We are alarmed, Mr. Speaker.…”