Gregory Meeks

Eliminating all funding to Haiti will show that we are going back on our word then, and turning our back on the neediest of the needy.

I don't see where he has threatened the President at all.

I was waiting on President Bush to send them up also, and they never came up.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

You will find that this is an issue where we can have some bipartisanship.

Can you tell us where we are with Haiti? They are having elections.

We should be doing the kinds of things that you are doing, bringing our allies together working together on this place that we call Earth trying to save folks, not cutting about 67 percent from international disaster assistance, 45 percent…

I hope we don't ever go back to that kind of policy to talking that way where we are alienating our allies.

I hope we don't go back to foreign policies.

Yes, we have got to tighten our belt. We have to look at what our colleagues, what our allies in Great Britain did.

Through your skilled advocacy around the world to rebuild partners and to--reliable partners and bilateral engagement, you are making indeed America a safer and a stronger Nation.

I have confidence in the Egyptian people.

I want to make sure that we don't get into that scenario. And I have tremendous faith in the Egyptian people from what I have seen thus far.

Let me just end by saying this. Let's make sure that health care is not a privilege for a few but a right for the many. Let us make sure that we do not destroy this great health care reform bill that's now law.

I think it is also clearly what the Constitution, what the individuals who wrote in 1787, it was a committee of the Federal Convention, that it should remind us that the sacred text employs and empowers us to provide for and protect the…

This is the United States House of Representatives, the United States of America. This is an institution that I am proud to be a Member of, and there comes a point in time in our lives when we just simply must do the right thing, keeping…

Sometimes when I listen to the debate, you would think that President Obama inherited a large surplus and growing jobs. No, what my Republicans forget, that's not what President Obama inherited. That's what George Bush inherited and lost…

We need this bill. It is the right bill. Without lending from Wall Street, there could be no Main Street. This bill responsibly regulates the former to ensure the vitality of the latter.

Today is truly a historic day largely because of the great, magnificent job of our chairman, Barney Frank, who we are so proud of. Very few people could have marshaled this bill in the way that he did. And because of him and that…

Let me again thank the gentlewoman from West Virginia for her hard work on bringing this bill. I think there's no more appropriate thing to do than to celebrate mothers, as we will this Sunday, and celebrate the 100th anniversary of…

Those kinds of loans can help individuals own a home, which I still believe is the greatest opportunity for wealth creation that we have.

The problem comes in is where the responsibility leaves, and we get into areas of predatory loans.

But the problem is that it seems no one picked up. We are in this crisis now. There is enough blame to go around.

Some are concerned about--and I think that based upon the White Paper that the President has put out, that there is going to be tremendous responsibility that is going to cause a lot more work.

I just want to say how important--I just came back from Colombia, and I have seen communities there...