Kendrick Meek: “The good thing I like about this 30-something Working Group is we always talk about second- and third-party validators…”

“The good thing I like about this 30-something Working Group is we always talk about second- and third-party validators and making sure that folks do not watch us here on the floor and think that we are talking out the sides of our necks. The Wasserman Schultz Report, the Ryan Report, the 30-something Report, the Meek Report. This is reality. The $62 billion is the largest supplemental appropriations in history of this country outside of war; $62 billion we did last week or the week before and the rest last week is the largest in history in the United States of America. So we have not been to this point ever. I think it is also important for folks to understand the difference. Folks say, what is the difference between Democrat and Republican leadership? I will tell you this in the moment, this is fact, not fiction. I am holding here a letter from the Democratic leader and several other ranking members that I mentioned earlier. Folks wants to know the action. This is not on behalf of Democrats in Mississippi and Louisiana and Alabama. This is on behalf of Americans in those States. We are talking about the commitment to the South. We are talking about commitment to Americans that pay taxes every day, those that are veterans, those that are children of veterans, those that never fought in wars before, those that go to work every day, those individuals that are disabled and cannot go to work. We represent them.…”