Adam Smith: “I just returned from a conference in Dallas that I heard referred to earlier. It was United We Stand America. I have…”

“I just returned from a conference in Dallas that I heard referred to earlier. It was United We Stand America. I have spoken in 2 weeks to over 20,000 people at conventions. There is now a national group called the Clean Congress Foundation that is now bigger than all of the individual groups. I will tell the Members, America is disgusted as much by the partisan bickering, posturing, with no intent to go anywhere, as they are with anything. Dallas was about a lot of people tired of partisan politics, disgusted by people that have held power for 42 years that could have cleaned up the system, who are now standing pure as the driven snow, disgusted; disgusted by the Republicans that used to do the same thing, all of us, them and us, on both sides of the aisle. I want to tell the Members that what is most disturbing today to Middle America is what they are seeing on the floor today. I checked out to see if this amendment could actually do anything. No. Members know it cannot do anything. The Parliamentarian stands and says it is not germane. It is not even debatable. They knew when they took up this time on the floor that there was not a chance of a cold day in hell of getting it through, and they were playing with the American people again, and they are mad. They are mad.”