Gregory Meeks actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."

"I want to thank Ranking Member Engel who has consistently and constantly been working very hard to work in a bipartisan manner."

"Karen Bass, who in her vision, says that we are going to work and she was going to work just as hard as Donald did."

"I also think of my good friend who is looking down from heaven, Donald Payne, who had worked so hard and so tremendously for a long period of time on working on Africa."