Hank Johnson: “Thank you, Congresswoman Fudge. It is indeed an honor to serve in Congress with you ladies who are all champions of…”

“Thank you, Congresswoman Fudge. It is indeed an honor to serve in Congress with you ladies who are all champions of regular working people and poor people of this country, regardless of geographical boundaries, and I salute you, in this age of women that we are living in. I remember, Madam Speaker, just within the last 17 months, the leader of the Republican Party said publicly that he hopes that President Obama fails. Do y'all remember that? It was well publicized. It was not coming from Minority Leader Boehner of the House, and it was not uttered by Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader in the Senate. It was uttered by the true leader of the Republican Party, and that is my good friend, Rush Limbaugh, who for every day, 5 days a week, 3 or 4 hours a day, sends that same message out to Americans who are hooked on that show, he sends it out to them relentlessly, and they remember it and they act on it. But they are not the only ones who have acted on it. It has been the followers in the Senate who have acted upon it, and it has been the followers here in the House of Representatives on the other side of the aisle who have followed his leadership, and they have embarked upon this strategy of obstruction: Just say no. I don't care who it hurts. If it hurts the unemployed, fine. We won't let it happen where they can get some relief. If it happens to a small business man or woman, we don't care on the other side of the aisle, because what we want is failure.”