Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is indifference, Mr. Ryan. It is indifference, that there is a total disconnect between what the American people care about and understand are their needs and what this administration and this President understand.

Reclaiming my time, I look forward to that, and I appreciate the gentleman's comments. I have legislation that I have introduced just today that your colleague from Texas, Mr. Poe, has joined me on that would prohibit…

Indifference, incompetence, corruption, cronyism, it is all a consistent pattern. One would think when they got hit hard in the face with the criticism and the visceral reaction of the American people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina…

We have a new Web site, Mr. Ryan. We revamped it, and it has a lot of new cool bells and whistles.

To take that a step further, and, Mr. Ryan, before I do that, we have used this chart repeatedly because it is so illustrative of the stark ineptitude, for lack of a better term, of this administration, you know, compared to all of the…

We have sort of interchangeably been talking about two different things. There is the debt, and then there is the deficit. Both things are startling when it comes to this administration's record. Under this President the deficit and the…

I look forward to coming back and joining my colleagues in the 30-something Working Group next year.

If that is not evidence of incompetence, how do you have that big a swing from one year to the next, with the only difference being the person in the White House?

That is it right there, and you cannot do those things when you are hampered every day by having to answer questions from reporters and from your constituents on your ethical lapses and on the corruption accusations and on cronyism. We all…

The other place that we are lagging behind is global education standards. I was shocked to learn that the difference in the number of students who graduate with an engineering degree from nation to nation is staggering. Here is another…

Do you need any ethics training? You and I served in the Florida house of representatives together, in the Florida senate together, now we serve in the United States Congress. You know, the ethics training I got began in kindergarten when…

No, we are saying there is a continuation of the culture of cronyism and corruption, and it is time to give government back to the people. And that is what we want to do next year, give government back to the people; make sure government…

The wife of the nephew of the Republican Governor of Mississippi, former RNC chairman, $6.4 million in contracts, 10 separate contracts from FEMA and the GSA that were no- bid, for services like providing laundry equipment, delivering…

And, Mr. Ryan, if we could point to some of these things and they could justifiably say these are anomalies, these are outlandish things that only happen on occasion, but, look: pages and pages. Look how thick this notebook is. I am not…

The wife of the nephew of Haley Barbour, Mississippi Republican Governor, former RNC chairman, she has received $6.4 million in contracts for things like laundry service and showers and delivering tents. Not emergency needs 3 months after…

You are absolutely right. Unless you believe that the contracting and the culture of corruption and cronyism and incompetence is reserved for contracting only in the Iraq gulf coast region. We have a third-party validator, in the New York…

Iraq. You have an $8 trillion deficit now. We have got corruption, cronyism, competence.

You are absolutely right. On top of that, because we are about third-party validators and it is not all about just what we say, you have Governor Kean and Mr. Hamilton who the other day gave them a list of Fs on almost every major aspect…

Thank you just for the filling in of the facts. The list goes on in terms of the cronyism that is rampant through this administration. So you have corruption. You have cronyism. Then you have, as the gentleman from Ohio just described, the…

This is not the last time we are going to do this. We are kicking this effort off. So even if we do not get to all the questions tonight, which with over 400 we obviously will not be able to in the 60 minutes, we will be doing this again.

The only difference in your definition of 30- something is maybe it is 30-something by decade.

And this does not come from FEMA money. This is not the emergency funding. This comes right out of the food stamp program. We have cuts in child care. We have cuts that would prevent us from ensuring that deadbeat dads are pursued. There…

These are new people. The vast majority of people in this line were applying for the first time.

So they never send a bill back to committee even if something may be wrong with it?

Can I ask you another question on that point. In the time that you have been here, which is 3 years now, has a motion to recommit ever passed out of the House of Representatives since you have been here?