Kendrick Meek: “You know, Mr. Murphy, I am glad that you are part of our majority-making Members that came here and gave house Democrats…”

“You know, Mr. Murphy, I am glad that you are part of our majority-making Members that came here and gave house Democrats the majority. And the way it went on in the Senate, even though there is just one majority Member there that put the quit the Senate Democratic majority. But there is still a lot of work to be done. As I sit here, and Mr. Ryan knows and Mrs. Stephanie Tubbs Jones knows, we have been on this floor before in the 108th and 109th Congress, and saying if it was about politics, we would just not come to the floor. We would allow the Republicans, and I am not generalizing, those that are in the position of standing with the President, not with the American people, that works politically for Democrats. The majority will even get greater, Mr. Speaker, if we just sat in our office or we just went to committee meetings and didn't come to the floor burning the midnight oil here tonight. But it is not about politics. It is about the country, and that is the reason we are here. I just wanted to point one thing out. Folks get excited about the war. But you saw the $10 billion figure I had on the whole war cost for, this is a little clearer here, $10 billion right here per month. This whole child health insurance package is $35 billion over 5 years, Mr. Speaker. Five years, $35 billion. That is 3 rac{1}{2} months of the cost of the war in Iraq. Five years versus 3 rac{1}{2} months. The President's action is one thing. The Republican minority allowing it to stand is another thing.”