Kendrick Meek

This is about who is for real and who is willing to put their future in the House on the line on behalf of what they believe in. That is what it is about. And guess what? We have elections here in this House every two years. And guess…

I have the opportunity to do something we call pray, and we pray for days when things will get better for real people, people who understand what it means to take a 15-minute break in the morning and a 15-minute break in the afternoon, and…

You said you were looking at the e-mails, and I thought you were going to read those. What you are saying as it relates to 61 percent, we will have more Americans writing their name on the orange juice at home after they graduate.

The largest agency in the history of the world, Federal Government agency created by this Congress, the largest contract they have given out thus far has gone to an offshore company. No taxes, no benefit to the American people, no benefit…

What a country. Let me just, if the gentleman would start, I started out with some opening comments, just to kind of share with the American people and the Members of the House our purpose for being here. Once again, we pay all respect and…

my colleague mentioned Bermuda, and I cannot help but think of the largest Homeland Security contract that was given to an offshore company. Now, this was once a U.S. company.

let me tell my colleague, if it was not for our wives, I do not know where we would be, to be honest with him; and I thank God. Coming up October 12, it will be 13 years for me; and, amen, I got married young.

that budget was balanced without one Republican vote in this House. I want to make sure that we are clear on that because 3 rac{1}{2} years ago, we were talking about how we were going to spend the surplus. Are we going to save Social…

We still have the voter suppression issue that is alive and well in America. We have been getting the vote out through the Rock the Vote effort and also a lot of other folks who are out there, making things happen, sharing with young…

I will say that the individuals that are wearing the shirts and ties, just like I shared today with Secretary Wolfowitz, who is the Under Secretary under Donald Rumsfeld, it is something fundamentally wrong when the Department of Defense…

When we talk about sacrifice and commitment, we have to make some tough decisions here in the Congress, and I will say that we dodge making those tough decisions constantly when it comes down to doing the things that we should be doing…

You are part of that solution, and we thank the fact that you have joined us on several occasions and you are part of us. I just want to say quickly that we talk about priorities in America. I am so glad on the Democratic side of the…

And pay for it, not increasing this number, not increasing this number, but hopefully having this number go down, so that we do not have to knock on the bank door of China and say, hey, guess what, we need to borrow more money because we…

Dallas is in Texas. I want to make sure. I am from Florida so I want to make sure I have it right. They are saying, ``You have got a credibility problem, Mr. President.'' Now, this is the hometown paper in a home State that is saying that…

I was really appreciating the dialogue here. I know I am not a veteran myself, being from the State of Florida, I can tell that we have a number of veterans, very patriotic veterans that are very concerned from St. Petersburg to the…

General Taguba, who is an honorable man, he was doing what he was told just like many men and women in uniform, he was only able to interview MPs, number 1. Number 2, he was not able to go over his rank of a 2-star general. So this means…

once again, as I always say, it is a pleasure to address the House of Representatives and the American people. Tonight I will be joined by some of my colleagues who will this evening be talking about the issue that is facing not only our…

No, you could not. But we would never, through what the Pentagon has said, we would never know whether the mistakes were made at the top. That is pretty much what I am saying. So the way the deck, if I can, the way the deck is fixed now…

I just could not believe that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would respond in that manner. I think that he is a man of honor but also, at the same time, we are looking at the way the Taliban is being funded. And they said that…

A big number. And I will tell you right now if we had a little ticker here these zeros would be moving to a higher number as we speak. So the experience now that the American people have to witness and this is the U.S. Treasury credit card…

I have a Bachelor of Science Degree, and I am not an economist, but one would argue, well, if we take the banks out of it, what kind of effect will it have on the economy? And I think very little. If any of us that have gone to banks…

That is correct. Right now we are experiencing the highest deficit in the history of the republic. And you would assume that if we have the highest deficit and it was Democrats that balanced the budget. I just want to remind the American…

once again, as I always start, it is an honor and a privilege to stand here and speak not only to Members of the House but also to the American people. And as the Members know, for several weeks now, the gentlewoman from California (Ms…

We have individuals now that are ungraduate level and just to do a comparison between what happened in 1997 to 2000, and if you move beyond that you really start getting in trouble. But here between 1997 and 2000 the typical undergraduate…

Let me share with you, we received a rebate in the State of Florida of a billion dollars. And the State Governor Jeb Bush said, let us hold it off to next annual year versus trying to resolve some of the issues that are facing Floridians…