Melvin Watt: “first of all, let me say, I cannot think of anybody other than this Speaker of the House that I would less like to yield…”

“first of all, let me say, I cannot think of anybody other than this Speaker of the House that I would less like to yield martial law to. The way this House has been managed, if we give him martial law authority, God knows what might could happen. Mr. Speaker, 3 days ago, the Republican National Committee decided it would start running $150,000 worth of ads in my congressional district to try to put me on the defensive for not raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for $90 billion worth of taxes for rich people. They can find $90 billion in trust fund monies to give for tax cuts, but they cannot find any money to do a reduction in class sizes for our children in this country. They can find $90 billion in money in the Social Security Trust Fund to give tax cuts to the wealthy people, but they cannot modernize our schools. We need to stay here until we get our schools modernized, our class sizes reduced. Reject this martial law. Vote against this rule.”