Kendrick Meek: “This is far beyond someone saying that we are being political. This is about the taxpayers' money. This is about the…”

“This is far beyond someone saying that we are being political. This is about the taxpayers' money. This is about the responsibility of the Congress. I said it once and I will say it again: if the majority is not willing to lead, then there are enough individuals that have filed bills to bring about accountability on behalf of the taxpayers of the United States of America on this side of the aisle that are ready to go. Not only are they in the locker room and ready to go; they are on the field with their mouthpiece in right now, chin strap buckled, ready to go out and hit somebody when it comes down to standing up on behalf of the taxpayers. So I think it is important that we do this. And what we are talking about here, because this is not just a discussion about Iraq, this is not just a discussion as relates to outing CIA agents, as heavy as both of those topics are, and they end up being intertwined, this is about the culture of corruption and cronyism that is going on here in Washington, D.C. Just as an example today, the Senate used the rules to do what they had to do on behalf of the American people. And guess what they were called? Hijackers. They hijacked the Senate today, as though someone ran in on the Senate floor with a gun and said shut the Senate down. No, they used the rules on behalf of the American people. And guess what came out of it from news reports and what I hear from some of our friends across the aisle?…”