Kendrick Meek: “Mr. Ryan, just very quickly, the bottom line is, Mr. Delahunt, to your…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2006

Mr. Ryan, just very quickly, the bottom line is, Mr. Delahunt, to your point, sir, the reason why the chairman hasn't called ExxonMobil in, the reason why everything that we have described here today is that we are on the total opposite side of their position. We are not willing to rubber stamp everything that the President and the administration says must happen in this Congress. We are not willing to rubber stamp the special interests just because they are contributors to a particular campaign or something. We are willing to stand up for the American people. And the reason why we have this rubber stamp down here on the floor, just to illustrate exactly what the Republican Congress has done, and that is the reason why we are in the situation we are in now. Ms. Wasserman Schultz.

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