Rep. Meeks Puts Affordability Atop Democrats’ Agenda
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[0:00] Democrat Gregory Meeks represents New York's fifth congressional district, and
[0:03] he is the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
[0:06] I started off by asking him how he is feeling about his party's prospects.
[0:11] I look at it as though we are the New York Knicks and we are down.
[0:15] Uh, but we are on the run and, uh, and we're going to make sure that we run
[0:19] through the tape and we're going to keep moving and running around the country,
[0:22] uh, convincingly and talking to the American people.
[0:25] What we will do once we were in charge and letting them know that, uh, this
[0:30] functioning, uh, of the white House now, uh, and the Congress on this is a rubber
[0:34] stamp for the white House. Will end once we win one of them.
[0:40] I love the shout out to your New York Knicks, but let me pick up on something
[0:43] you said there, which is how you're communicating your priorities to the
[0:45] American people. What should or what will the number one
[0:48] priority be for Democrats if they do take back control of the House?
[0:52] Of course, the number one issue is affordability.
[0:54] You've got to bring the cost down. And so therefore that means stopping the
[0:58] war, for example, in Iran, you know, I've passed the war resolution, uh, act
[1:04] that passed the House and passed the Senate.
[1:07] But thus far, because the speaker refused to, uh, go to court to have it
[1:12] enforced, that has not taken place. That's one of the things that we would
[1:15] have to move because we know that, uh, Trump's, uh, war that he's talking
[1:19] about, the continuing, uh, it has cl