On the recordJune 30, 2010
I have always been told that leadership is about action, not position. But when you hear the position on the other side of the aisle that we need to stand up for big Wall Street banks, we need to stand up and apologize to BP and Big Oil for our involvement in trying to clean up the oil spills, and we need to stand up and allow foreign corporations to be involved in our political process, there is a clear difference between this aisle, and it's a bright line. The American people need to understand this. When we took office a year ago as freshman Democrats, we were handed two undeclared, unfunded wars, an economy that was in free fall, we didn't know where we were going to land, and greed, unregulated greed on Wall Street. And now the answers and solutions that we hear from the other side is that we need to privatize Social Security to pay for our debt, we need to make sure that we apologize to BP, we need to make Americans work harder and work until they are 70. Mr. Speaker, there is a clear difference. We need regulated reform to make sure that Wall Street banks are accountable. We need to make sure we move away from our dependence on foreign oil, so that we stand up to the big insurance companies and provide access to health care for all Americans. There has been a clear difference for the decisions that we made because we know on this side that leadership is about action, not position.
