Kendrick Meek: “Let me tell my good friend, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), it starts right here. We talk about…”

“Let me tell my good friend, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), it starts right here. We talk about third-party validators, and we believe in that in our working group we have here. I hold in my hand here from the Republican Study Committee, which it seems like the majority is following the lead of this group, and they have said originally in this report that they wanted $35 billion in cuts. Let us talk about those cuts. {time} 2100 Let us talk about those cuts: $35 billion in cuts, and all of this is on the table and a majority of it is in this budget, Mr. Speaker, that was passed by the Republican majority out of committee today. Cuts to Medicare, cuts to Medicaid, student loan cuts, we talked about that; food stamps, school lunches. But not a mumbling word, not a mumbling word about taking back tax cuts from billionaires. Not a mumbling word. Not one, Hey, you know something, we are at war. Maybe we need to ask these folks who have never given anything. As a matter of fact, I do not blame them. I go back to not blaming the billionaires. We never asked them, we never told them that they need to do something. Let us just keep it going. This is the document. I want to make sure that the Members who did not see this document, they can go online to www.john.shadegg.house.gov/rsc/, that is www.john.shadegg.house.gov/ rsc/. Do not take it from me. Go find it for yourself. So how do we get to the point where we are?”