Ed Markey: “what we are doing right now reminds me of the story of the little boy in Lithuania who hated kreplach. No matter how…”

“what we are doing right now reminds me of the story of the little boy in Lithuania who hated kreplach. No matter how many times his mother made it, he just hated it. Finally his mother decided that she would just take kreplach apart and show him that all the parts of it were not bad. She took out the sausage and fed him the sausage. ``Don't you like sausage?'' He said yes. She took out some onions and sliced them up. ``Don't you like onions?'' Yes. She took out some carrots, gave him some carrots, he said ``yes.'' She gave him some broccoli, he ate the broccoli, not too bad. Then she put it all together, stirred it together, put it on the plate, and the boy said, ``Aiyee, kreplach.'' So the Republicans start off the day and they say, ``We don't like the Government.'' We take it apart. We say, ``How about small business assistance?'' They say, ``We like that.'' ``How about nursing home protection?'' ``Well, we like that.'' ``How about a little extra money for crime protection?'' ``Well, we like that.'' ``How about some money for NIH?'' ``Well, let's put that back in.'' But we stir it all together, we put it together, we say, ``It's the government.'' They go, ``Aiyee, kreplach.'' Let us hope when we bring it back out here on the floor in one big package, we could get out of here tonight without all your members shouting, ``Aiyee, kreplach.''”