On the recordJuly 20, 2022
I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for her comments. Every now and again, we find leaders in the country who may come from the House but all of a sudden take on national prominence. Why is that? Because they speak straightforwardly to the people, in the case of Tim Ryan, in Ohio, but they are really speaking to the entire Nation. What are they talking about? The more than 10,000 baby boomers a day who become eligible for Social Security and the individuals who have worked all of their lives and paid into a program and receive below- poverty-level checks from their government, and also a pay-for in this program that has the wealthiest people paying their fair share simply by lifting the cap on people making over $400,000. That is four-tenths of 1 percent of the American public. Even with that, they will be paying proportionately less than a person earning $35,000 to $50,000 a year. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan), the next Senator from the State of Ohio, the person who speaks to that working class, and it resonates not only in Ohio but across this great Nation of ours.
