I will also remind you that we have requests for money to deepen the channel.

Excuse me for interrupting. Before you came to the House of Representatives, that was your work in New York, wasn't it?

Mr. Tonko, there is one additional piece to this puzzle, and that is that the Democrats have been putting forth for the last 2 years a project which we call Make It in America. This is the rebuilding of the American manufacturing sector…

Excuse me for interrupting, but if you look at the Ryan Republican budget, it would cut education and other services by 33 percent. So instead of investing in our children, investing in re- educating and helping our workforce learn new…

Well, let me just pick up a little more on the education. The most important investment any society will ever make is the education of their children and the re-education of their workforce. In the American Jobs Act there are the 280,000…

I was reading one of the Hill magazines--often called the Hill rags--and they said that the Speaker of this House starts off his weekly press conference by asking: Where are the jobs? Well, the jobs, Mr. Speaker, were proposed last…

Well, Mr. Tonko, thank you very much. Next Monday, did you know, next Monday is the annual birthday of Medicare? Next Monday. It went into effect in 1965, and ever since, as you said earlier, Republicans have been trying to terminate it…

Well, exactly so. For 8 years in the early nineties and then in 2000, I was the insurance commissioner in California. I wish I had this law because I could have held the insurance companies responsible. Now, my attitude about them is they…

Let me pick up on that, Mr. Tonko. You are quite correct, it is not just an attempt. There have been 33 votes on this floor by the Republican majority to either terminate completely or to eviscerate in part the Affordable Health Care Act…

Thank you for the privilege. And thank you, to my colleagues in the Republican Doctors Caucus, for a most interesting but factually incorrect 45 minutes of debate here. We really were going to spend this evening talking about jobs and…

Mr. Tonko, thank you very much for your passion on this issue, and thank you for your compassion for the American people. We can make it. We can make it in America. We need good and wise policies to do that. You can't do it by cutting…

If we're going to really be caring about the American worker going back to work, we also need to be very cognizant of international competition. You spoke earlier about the need for our workforce to be competitive, which is the education…