Kendrick Meek: “We appreciate the time here on floor. We would like to thank the Democratic leader for allowing us to have this time on…”

The bottom line is, you have your back up against the wall, you have to make a decision, you have to do it now.

I can see it even going down to almost health care employment discrimination saying, well, if you have a preexisting condition, I don't need you in my group or in my company because you are going to cost us all more.

One of the things I want to bring to the attention of the Committee is that unemployment in Florida is 9.4 percent, and in other parts of the State it's even higher.

We are not here drinking the tea. I mean, we are not here saying, Oh, let's just all link up together and flowers falling from the ceiling and all and that we are working in a bipartisan way. What we are doing is saying that we are working…