Kendrick Meek

Let me say, just to back up what you were saying and be a third-party validator on that, I have the facts here. You want to talk about abuse of power? It was printed just this afternoon a story that was posted around 7 p.m. tonight about…

I have a tail end to that statement on this whole abuse of power, and I am glad you have the perspective from the 108th Congress about what actually took place and how you served with this past-chairman and past-member of the Veterans'…

I just want to ask you a quick question, Mr. Spratt. I think it is important not only for the Members to know, but for everyone to know: How much work has gone into this Defense authorization bill? It just was not something that one…

Well, Mr. Spratt, I want to thank you once again for coming down and bringing clarification to that. But this is just an ongoing issue. I can tell you, I had the opportunity, I wanted to share with the Members, to be a guest at 8 a.m. this…

this Republican majority is willing to borrow as much money as possible to give millionaires a tax break.

we would like to thank the Democratic leader for the time tonight. ____________________

reclaiming my time, there was a time and a place that we could say future generations, but we are talking about right now. We are talking about taking and cutting out of the budget child enforcement, Mr. Speaker, enforcement that State…

Well, Mr. Delahunt, I must add to just say this, that we are compassionate to the oil companies. We are giving them money when they are making record-breaking profits. So when folks say, well, Congressman, when we get an e-mail or so to…

Can I amend that chart and say Hurricane Republican Majority, because we represent Republicans that believe in what we are talking about here tonight. Goodness gracious, the average Republican's stomach would turn if they even knew half of…

No. Some have left and have pled. Forget about a trial. They have said, oh, I am guilty. So that is not an issue. Some of it is alleged, ongoing now; but some of it is actually proven. So that means that we have a lot of work to do in a…

I am so glad that Mr. Ryan set the pace here and he laid the foundation for continuing our discussion as it relates to responsibility. I can tell the Members the ideas that we had here on this floor as it relates to sensible tax policy…

I want to go further. It is from the Congressional Budget Office. I mean, I just want to make sure that is clear.

That is what I was going to say. I think it is important we talk about this all the time. We work on this as a working group. I think it is important that the American people understand that we have a war going on, we have a war going on…

I would also add corporations that have influence and power. What is it, K Street?

We have to put more into this and we have to do more with this. Matter of fact, I want to make sure that staff get this on. It is factual. Matter of fact, it is from the department of the U.S. Treasury so this is not fiction. This is third…

Well, let me just say this, and I say this is something that I have read in the paper today, and I am pretty sure some sort of memo is going to come out on it: when you are in a culture of corruption and cronyism and incompetence, you have…

I ask the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan), who would be happy tonight, based on the passage of the bill that passed today? Who would be happy?

It is important. Anytime anyone can get information between right and wrong, I think it is good. I think it is good. I think it is good that we have this discussion. But we need action. The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt) had a…

If they ask to see the books and they ask to take part and are trying to help with the problem, trying to get out of the hole that you are in a financial way and they are called, well, you must be a mole from another company; no, you are…

I want Members to be able to go onto the Web site. We are not down here to talk about fiction; we are here to talk about fact and make this country stronger. The Web site is www.housedemocrats.gov. I want my colleagues to go on, look at…

I thank Mr. Ryan and Ms. Wasserman Schultz; and with that, it was an honor once again to address the House, and I want to thank the Democratic leadership for the time. ____________________

this will not only help individuals out of poverty, but this will help educate America.

I hate to break in when you have a stream of thoughts that are there, but I wanted to just share just one moment, and I think it is important for us to realize, when you start talking about what is happening and how we got to where we are…

Mr. Ryan, I think it is important that we realize that the President is talking about the economy in Iraq and is talking about infrastructure, yet ignoring infrastructure here at home; talking about boosting oil production in Iraq while…

we just got back from Iraq. We are not even a week out of Iraq. We visited three Iraqi cities, and it was my second trip. I can tell you this, that when you hear uniformed personnel say, well, you know, some of the money, I mean it is like…