Joe Cunningham: “I have been flying wing on the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) for about 14 years, and he has always got me…”

“I have been flying wing on the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) for about 14 years, and he has always got me home safely. The gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and his wife are out at Bethesda in the hospitals every single day taking care of our troops. There is no better team than the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Murtha) to make sure that our men and women are safe. I have another great friend in the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey). And if we were back in the times of Troy, I would be Achilles, and he would be Hector, and we would cross swords, but we would respect each other. And there is one area, Mr. Obey, when you mentioned homeland security we can seat those swords. The gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) is working on the abuses of the homeland security money. That is being taken on. I think we can work in a very bipartisan way to make sure that that happens. I would like to thank the chairman for the border issues, that we have been able to secure our borders with this bill and provide for border patrol. Many of us have been working on this for years. And the Speaker has granted us that at the first must-pass bill we can bring this forward.”