Bill Delahunt: “I look forward to seeing you graduate to a different level, and I am sure that you will be able to be here for the last…”

“I look forward to seeing you graduate to a different level, and I am sure that you will be able to be here for the last hour once you hit that magic mark in September. Like I was saying, we hear a lot of rhetoric on the floor here, and we just heard an hour's worth of good talk, good talk, and you know, I welcome the fact that it would appear, if you listen carefully, that the Republican majority is going to get serious about fiscal responsibility. I would only note that they are coming very late to the issue, because, I know neither of you were here in 1994, but in 1994, this branch, Madam Speaker, was taken over. The Republicans assumed majority. So let us see, from 1994 to 2006, that is 12 years, that is 12 years and now we are faced with runaway deficits, external debt. We just recently received a report from the Comptroller General of the United States that informed the American people that despite the fact that they have already spent 30 billion of their dollars in Iraq, that the bill is coming for another $50 billion to reconstruct Iraq.”