Kendrick Meek

Mr. Ryan and I were both in Iraq. We were in Iraq together. We were in these meetings with the commanders and the troops. You ask a question, sometimes folks lose eye contact with you because they are trying to do what the commander in…

Prevention. When you talk about prevention, you are talking about before. When you are talking about reactionary, we are talking about after. So dealing with this container thing, I don't want the Members to take it lightly, Mr. Speaker…

Bobble heads on the other side of the aisle saying, we are with you all the way. So when they say we stand up to the President every now and then, that is not what the Constitution says, Mr. Speaker. The Constitution says that we are the…

Thank you. With that we want to thank the Democratic leader. We want to also encourage everyone to go to our Web site, housedemocrats.gov. We want the majority to go on our Web site, housedemocrats.gov. These are our plans. As it stands…

Thank you, Mr. Ryan. I just want to let you know that it was a pleasure coming down to the floor with you again. We got out a lot of good information.

Yes, that is the next President's issue. Mr. Speaker, we talked about the other night, Mr. Ryan and I were talking, and the next thing you know, it is like Mr. Ryan or my constituents walking up to me in Miami and saying, hey, Congressman…

Thank you, Mr. Ryan. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, many Members of the House had an opportunity to witness a strong message again of commitment towards security; and those of us that are in the minority party have been working very, very hard to…

Because from this point on, you can only buy what you can afford, not just continue to put it on the credit card because you are going to continue to go into the hole.

Well, you know, Mr. Ryan, I believe that America is protected best and freedom is protected in advance. We look at homeland security.

If a family had this kind of situation where they had debt and they were trying to catch up on that debt, the first thing when you get out of that or you get a second mortgage or you get some sort of loan to consolidate your debt, the…

Mr. Ryan, I just want to also share the fact that we both serve on the Armed Services Committee, and we feel very passionate about what our men and women are doing. And we know that in Iraq, Mr. Speaker, you watch the Secretary of Defense…

Mr. Ryan, when you start talking about our stakeholders here, and who is a stockholder in the United States of America or a stakeholder that has stock, you know, I am a Member of Congress and I guess I put on a suit and a tie this morning…

And the bottom line is, it is like having, Mr. Speaker, a board of directors of a bunch of people like bobble heads going up and down like this: What do you want, Mr. President? You want to make tax cuts permanent for millionaires and…

the real issue is this. We want to talk about listening to the military commanders on the ground. I heard time after time again about oh, yes, whenever our commanders tell us what we need, we will give it to them. Well, if it has anything…

To the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts and also the gentleman from Ohio and the gentlewoman from Florida, I just want to say that our whole reason for coming to the floor is to be able to share with the Members what is happening…

They are in the money, and I believe Florida will be able to do some great things. Let me just say, Madam Speaker, as you know, we come to the floor to talk about a number of things, talk about what we as Democratic Members here in the…

Words are inadequate to even describe the way she explained to us her struggle as a woman, and it is hard for Liberia and the United States to be able to reflect on what her life was all about. She was sharing with us here, Madam Speaker…

this is 30-something Part 2 here. I am glad Ms. Wasserman Schultz and Ms. Bean had the opportunity to claim the first hour. I see Ms. Wasserman Schultz is proudly wearing her Florida pin, her Gators pin.

We definitely appreciate the contributions of women. If it weren't for women, there would be no men. And the way I look at it, being a mamma's boy, Madam Speaker, and I will admit to that even though I am a big rusty Congressman now, we…

You are 110 percent right, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. We can't say it enough. The bottom line is the message that we are giving out to the American people and to all the Republican majority: As a matter of fact, we don't need permission from…

Let me say. Mr. Ryan and I were talking a little earlier, and it is like Mr. Ryan telling his constituents, well, I know we have to have an education strategy, but that is not my job; that is up to the next Congressman that represents…

We owe OPEC $67.8 billion, but let us not leave Iraq and Iran and other countries that we have concern about where our troops are getting sand in their teeth right now. Let us not leave them out of the OPEC nations and allies and people of…

it comes down to who is telling the truth and who is not. I mean, just because I may put something behind me and say that I stand for homeland security, do I really stand for homeland security? We are in the minority. When you are in the…

Well, the way I look at this whole homeland security issue, and I am concerned, and I was over in the Senate, had an opportunity to sit down with some reporters, with Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and also Senator Schumer from New York and…

To be able to paint this even further for the Members, I am going to put a couple of countries up, more than a couple up, thanks to the Republican majority, that own a piece of the American pie. This bothers me in putting these countries…