Kendrick Meek

Mr. Ryan, I want you to get the Web site information up because I want to make sure Members have accurate information. Also, I would just like to say that Members can go onto the Web site and get any of these charts that we have shared…

it is an honor once again to come before the House. I would like to thank Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi for allowing us to have the time and the Democratic whip, Mr. Hoyer; Mr. Clyburn, our chairman; and Mr. Larson, our vice-chair. Mr…

it is very easy to say that, trying to let them know that we are moving forward because that is what we are trying to do, Mr. Speaker. We are trying to move this country in the right direction. Unfortunately, I must add there has been a…

It must have been faxed. March 6, this letter is very, very alarming. As you can see through our discussion, we have stamped the rubber stamp Congress onto it. We have this rubber stamp, and it should be very familiar to the Members right…

Mr. Ryan, I want to thank you. I want to thank Mr. Delahunt for being a part of this 30-something hour. Mr. Speaker, we would like to thank the Democratic leadership for allowing us to have the time. It is an honor to address the House…

Let me say this, Mr. Ryan. He says, starting today, February 16. Now that is when you have waited as long as you can. When you write a letter talking about an action that you are going to take on that day, the same day, not that we cannot…

Communist China, $249.8 billion of U.S. debt they have purchased. We owe them. Japan, the island of Japan I must add, the island of Japan, not as big as the United States, but we owe them a whopping $682.8 billion. We owe them. The…

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…

So what you are saying, Mr. Ryan, is that education could have $250 billion; am I correct?

There is no probably about it. You are saying they probably will raise the debt ceiling. There is no probably about it. It is going to happen. We have our rubber stamp here because you know that they are going to rubber-stamp this deal…

Let me just say this, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. Democrats on this side of the aisle have great credibility when it comes to homeland security. Great credibility. I am on the Homeland Security Committee. We asked the Department of Homeland…

I am glad that you are breaking this down so that Members understand exactly what we are talking about. I just want to say that all of these letters that we have received from Secretary Snow raising the debt limit, Madam Speaker…

Ms. Wasserman Schultz and Mr. Delahunt, you are 110 percent right. The bottom line is who is going to level with the American people, tell them the truth about what is going on? If you are not prepared, say you are not prepared and then…

This is not where we are just picking a number out of the sky. And this is not all they need. We are trying to give them a little bit more, and I will yield to Ms. Wasserman Schultz in a minute and she will talk about what is being checked…

Mr. Ryan, you have to yield to me. The President has said that he has not known about a lot of things and then we found out later.

He is a CPA, and he lets us know when we are running out of money. The bottom line is that he is saying he has to take drastic steps. Never before, this last letter just written days ago, it says for the first time in the history of the…

You are 110 percent right to be alarmed. Mr. Speaker, I challenge the Republican majority to give us a good way to talk about this. They can't. They can't, Mr. Speaker. We hope we can have what we call a paradigm shift, a change in the way…

Mr. Ryan, you are 110 percent right. As we close, Mr. Speaker, since we have only 3 minutes or so left, once again we have seen this chart, and as I have said before, it will be in the National Archives. We are not trying to make history…

We like third-party validators, and I think it is important for the American people to understand this is not something that Ms. Wasserman Schultz and Mr. Ryan or other members of the 30-something Working Group just dream up. I think it is…

it is an honor to once again address the U.S. House of Representatives. We would like to thank the Democratic leadership for the time, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and our Democratic whip, Mr. Steny Hoyer, and also Mr. James Clyburn…

Mr. Ryan, it is not a point. This is fact, Mr. Speaker. I think it is important that we say June 18, 2004, Democrats supported an amendment to increase port container security by $400 million. Republicans have refused to allow it to be…

Ms. Wasserman Schultz, there have been in this Republican House, and I am just going to talk about President Bush being in office, this Republican majority, I am going to point the letters out and let you go ahead and drive your point…

with that we would like to thank not only the Democratic leadership but also many of us here in the House who are trying to work hard on behalf of the American people. I know we all are, but I think it is important that we bring these…

The question, Mr. Speaker here is, does the Republican majority have the will and the desire to make the kind of change we need to take or make to protect this country? The will and the desire. Now, the will may be there, but the desire is…

Mr. Ryan, wait. Hasn't the President and the Republican majority said, we want to listen to people in the field and give them what they need when they ask for it? Am I correct?