Keith Ellison: “if it wouldn't violate the rules of decorum, I would clap after Mr. Sarbanes' comment. I thought it was very eloquent. I…”

“if it wouldn't violate the rules of decorum, I would clap after Mr. Sarbanes' comment. I thought it was very eloquent. I thought the examples he used were very poignant. The young man who had a tooth abscess and had that go up into his brain and he died as a result of it stands as an indictment against our whole Nation. That young man deserves to have all of us, every adult in America, stand up and say, change must come, and it must come now. I just would like to read a quote and see if I could get my colleague from Brooklyn's reaction, if I may. Yvette Clarke, you are here with us tonight. You are a stalwart. You are a clarion voice for the public good. I just want to know what you might think about this statement as relates to SCHIP, which is a quote from the late Senator and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, from my home State of Minnesota, in which he said that the moral test of any government is how it treats those in the dawn of life, the children; those in the dusk of life, the elderly; and those in the shadow of life, the disadvantaged. When you think about this veto of SCHIP and you think about the moral test of the Nation, what do you think? What thoughts come to mind?”