Thank you very much, Mr. Yarmuth. This is what you were talking about here, a different way of saying the same thing that you discussed. This is over the period of time from 1979 to 2005. This is the income growth by each 20 percent of the…

Okay, so you weren't here. A tax cut year one, a tax cut year two, a war, two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq followed by a Medicare drug program that wasn't paid for and the deregulation of Wall Street. The result: He left office with an $11.5…

I see. So we are shifting the costs to the seniors; right? Mr. DeFAZIO. Right. If the gentleman would yield.

Thank you. I want to turn our attention to the issues that are before us today and see if we can have a better understanding of what has taken place. We just heard a little bit about honoring our troops. Let's be very clear about this. The…

I would love to see what that message is. I think we got some sense of it earlier in the day. And I suspect it speaks to the issue of the continuing resolution, and it is the effectuation of the promise he made earlier in the day that…

It also speaks to the fact that the Democrats are willing to put up shared sacrifice on both sides. I want to just wrap up with this, and every time I come to the floor I want to make it clear that we need to rebuild the American…

Thank you very much, Mr. Ryan. I will first yield to the gentleman from Colorado, and then we are going to wrap this thing up, and I want to wrap it up on one of our major themes, that's rebuilding the great American manufacturing sector.

You have raised a couple of issues, and I would like to carry them a little further. You raised the tax issue, in the proposed budget, not the CR today that funded the government for another week but rather in the proposal for the next…

Two hours ago, the Republicans in this House passed, without Democratic support, a continuing resolution for a while, and there were cuts in those. For the most part, there was no debate here on the floor about specific cuts, but you…

I am going to take this down because I know that the American public, whether they are seniors now or will be seniors in the future, understand the incredible importance of Medicare to the American society. Whether you are young or old…

Well, we seriously question the morality of the proposal that's being put forward by the Republican caucus. You said something that I want to focus in on. The details are important. We talked about Medicare and the end of Medicare as we…

I don't think so. It seems to me to be the path to poverty for seniors. And it goes way, way beyond that. Our colleague from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, has joined us. Ms. Lee, if you would care to comment. I know this is an issue you are…