Kendrick Meek

I do not want to start talking, but the first thing we instituted in Iraq was universal health care. So I do not want to bounce back and forth, but the gentleman from Alabama is on the Committee on the Budget, and I am glad we have a…

I will share with my colleagues that not only with the educational institutions that we have there, we have children or we have young people that are gambling on health care. They do not have health care because they cannot afford health…

I am so glad that the chairman shared with the American people and Members of the House on how dangerous this situation is for our troops in Iraq. And, Mr. Speaker, I am going to enter for the Record a statement of why I voted against a…

I rise to strongly oppose H. Res. 627, the Iraqi Prisoner Resolution, because it is simply deficient as a statement expressing the outrage and revulsion that I feel, and that I believe the American people feel, about the despicable abuse…

reclaiming my time, what is about to happen is due to the lack of top-end response from this administration, that you are going to have the true American spirit break through many of the troops that know different. They are going to blow…

But today I must say it is a very difficult day to stand here in this House of Representatives and be able to share with the American people that we have grave issues with the leadership of the Bush administration as it relates to the…

it is an honor to address the House and the American people on this afternoon. I must say that this is not only a great opportunity but a historic opportunity to address the House. I was very honored to see and hear the Democratic leader…

just to the point, I have some information here. I am so glad the gentleman from Ohio segued into summer jobs. I worked in the summer and I worked every summer. I had to because my mom was like, you are going to go out and you are going to…

Well, I can tell my colleagues right now, this whole issue of taxes, who pays them and who does not pay taxes is the defining issue here. I think it is very important that the American people understand that I am so glad that we are here…

I want to say on just a few of her points, talking about the real cost of tuition, we talk about students, we talk about the cost of young people having to foot the bill, we talk about students leaving the college experience, the higher…

we are here to listen, and we are here to act. For the Democratic leader, and I must add, female leader of any major party, to come here tonight to put emphasis on a weekly commitment of being here in this Chamber to make sure that we do…

we have two different educational experiences beyond high school now. We have our 2-year institutions that are community colleges that many working people have to use to be able to receive a higher education, not because they could not get…

What I am glad to hear and see, especially the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks), many times I think people know the glory, but they do not know the story. The story is real. The story is, as one comedian said, you had to move back in…

I am here today to not only report to the American people an unfortunate event we are going through here in the United States, living under the highest deficit in the history of the Republic and losing 2.8 million jobs since the Bush…

I want to also thank the chairman for his very kind comments about Judge Wilkie Ferguson. I just want to share with the House and the American people that the local community in Miami Dade County and within the circuit there in south…

I just want to say this very quickly in closing, Mr. Speaker, that it is very important we do what is right on behalf of this Nation. It is very important, if we are going to have a policy and interdict Haitians at sea and we want to save…

I appreciate his speaking out not only here on the floor of this great House of Representatives but also speaking out in the halls of Congress. We partner in a bipartisan effort to try to do what is best for Haiti. Regardless of the…

once again, it is a great honor to address the House of Representatives and the American people on a recent armed services trip that I took to Haiti and also talk about Haiti and the U.S. relations as we move forth from this point on. Many…

I must say that we cannot speak enough about what this budget does to first responders, and I will tell you it is definitely a travesty when we have a budget in this time of the homeland being at threat as it relates to the Secretary of…

I hope that it is not the case that we value oil over American blood. I am just saying that right now, and I think it is very important to make the message very simple tonight for Americans to understand.

Members of the House, once again it is a wonderful day to be here in the House and share not only with my colleagues, but with American people, the issues that are facing not only our economy but our children's future. I guess I would have…

As we close, Mr. Speaker, and I want to thank the Members of the House and the Democratic leader for allowing us to have this moment to address not only Members of the House, but the American people and that we think long and hard about…

Let me just say this, there is a footprint of drug activity in the Caribbean. So that means that you have well-financed individuals that have guns that have now been green-lighted by this administration, that it is okay. And if I were the…

They say they came from the Dominican Republic. Also, there was a question about the U.S. selling arms to the Dominican Republic, some of those same arms that ended up in Haiti. So I am not a man with conspiracy theory here. And take it…

I want to thank you for reading that, and I will tell you how important CARICOM is to the economy here in the United States. We have what we call the Free Trade of the Americas, and they are a part of the whole hemisphere and economy and…