Neil Abercrombie: “I recognize only too fully what the implications are when you find yourself without representation, when you find…”

“I recognize only too fully what the implications are when you find yourself without representation, when you find yourself having to look to the good will of others. In this particular instance, I think that we need to pay some final attention before we leave the building, before we leave the floor, and pay some particular attention to the proposition, is this actually what we should be doing? I do not mean tonight. I think that the majority party, the Republican Party, and the House, have the opportunity to reconsider in the next day or two whether we want to go home, whether we need to go home bearing the burden of not having resolved the question of the debt limit. The budget negotiations, I submit, are separate and apart from those negotiations that might occur or should be occurring with respect to the extension of the debt limit. In that regard, I do not think they should be connected.”