Kendrick Meek

There you go. It is not. This is by their own admission. No, it will not solve it. Furthermore, when you start looking at it, it really has three serious flaws. When you are talking about Social Security, there is no time to play around…

once again I thank the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) for his comments, and, like I said, everyone in the 30-Something Working Group, we would like to thank not only the Democratic leader but the Democratic leadership for allowing us to be…

reclaiming my time, getting back to talking about getting the job done, that is being shed light on, what the gentleman just shed light on as it relates to what is not happening and also what is happening to Americans versus for them. The…

Do you know that four States have sued the Federal Government for lack of Leave No Child Left Behind funding? Texas is one of those States. I am going to tell you something, the bottom line is it is about priorities. Do we want to bring…

It is important we move beyond personalities and look at what is actually taking place and what is not taking place. I think it is important looking at the numbers that we understand that it is just not happening. When we dealt with the…

What is important, and I think, Mr. Speaker, it is good for the Members to be able to note the fact that if the situation was different in this House, and when I say the situation, I am saying, if we were in the majority on this side and…

I just want to make sure. Against privatization of Social Security. The Subcommittee on Social Security, also you have the Century Foundation, the U.S. Action, Visiting Nurses Association of America, American Corn Growers Association. That…

They are leaving in debt. Better yet, the administration gives them a bad hand of cards in saying that we want you to go to college, we want you to educate yourself. Individuals are running around here, going to commencement ceremonies…

Then guess what? The local folks start seeing the millage rate go up from the school board. They start putting these local bond referendums on the ballots, because they do not have the money. Meanwhile, we are sitting up here in Washington…

Let our kids pay for it. Let someone else worry about paying for it. But as relates to the State governments, they have to balance their budgets, and the reason why they have to balance their budget is that they have a balanced budget…

I send my condolences to the family. We appreciate the commitment of our men and women in uniform who pay the ultimate sacrifice. Mr. Speaker, would the gentleman give our Web site out.

I want to correct myself, because in my last statement I said we here, as a Congress, raise taxes. No, we did not; the majority side who came up with a strategy on how we can cut funding in certain areas did, and that is the reason why…

Going on 11. Once again, I want to make sure everyone understands that we have to be in the majority to be able to run this House. So everything that takes place in this House and comes to this floor and goes before a committee, the…

I want to make sure because, once again, I believe in third-party validators, and I believe that it is important that if folks want the current number as we stand right now as it relates to the Federal debt and where these numbers come…

So you have the opportunity to do it now and work very hard. If you have a problem in getting good information on how to consolidate, there is information on line that they can use to be able to consolidate that information. You can go on…

Or allow Americans to get themselves in that position. I know that this is a country based on freedom but not based on ignorance. It is important that we share this information. If we know better, we will do better. And the bottom line is…

there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion or my opinion or the gentlewoman from Florida's (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) opinion or anyone in the 30-something Working Group's opinion, as long as they have merit and foundation, and that it…

Www.pirg.org/consolidation. Student loans, get them consolidated before the interest rate goes up almost 2 percent by the first of next month. And 70 percent of our troops are under the age of 30, which is a younger generation right now…

I do not want to be greedy on the time, but I just have to say this to my colleagues, what happened? Was it the gentleman from New Jersey (Chairman Smith) that stood up and said, we are going to do the right thing. A Republican chairman…

You know, what is very disturbing is when we commemorate or recognize or reflect on those that have fallen for our democracy, our veterans or our past veterans or those that did not even get an opportunity to be a veteran because they were…

But still, if we were in control of this House, if the American people said they were going to allow Democrats to be the majority in this House, we would have the following: We would have a Social Security debate about strengthening Social…

we appreciate the time here on floor. We would like to thank the Democratic leader for allowing us to have this time on the Democratic side. ____________________

the gentleman from Ohio did make the point of what is actually happening here, and I think it is important that we highlight that. We are going to close out. I see my Republican colleagues that are here. We got a little excited in talking…

There is no money. And I can tell the gentleman from Ohio right now, from what the gentleman has just said, and it is not just the gentleman from Ohio's (Mr. Ryan) report. That is from the Congressional Budget Office of this House of…

Because we are, I think those of us that are in 30-something, and Members of the Congress, are sick and tired of individuals in Washington using Social Security as though there is some sort of imminent danger or, going back to the…