Bill Delahunt

This is Leader Pelosi's 30-something Working Group, www.HouseDemocrats.gov/30something.

I think that really sums it up. If Democrats take control of this House, it is going to open the doors. It is going to open the windows. We are going to get a breath of fresh air, and accountability will be in vogue once more, for the…

That is what we are going to hear on this floor, and I challenge that Republican majority to use those terms when it comes to these generals, to these American patriots who have served their country. Ask them if they even would ever cut…

This majority is prepared to give this administration, this White House, this Secretary of Defense, a pass on their incompetence.

Mr. Ryan, do you realize that it has been more than 3 years, and this is the first time tomorrow that we will have a conversation about Iraq? There should have been hearings for the past 3 years. These heroes, these American heroes should…

Ms. Kaptur, I know that you are still under that cutoff of 40, but it is great having you on board because I feel very lonely here with these young people.

They do not want a Wall Street. They do not want a financial market that has not moved upward in 6 years. It has just slid and stagnated. That is what has happened here. All you have got to do is pick up the paper every morning and check…

I can give you a similar economic picture of what is occurring in my district back in Massachusetts. There was a recent headline in the Cape Cod Times. And in that particular region, where you have many second homes, we are breaking…

And meanwhile, we are building roads, we are building hospitals, we are building schools, we are building dams and levies, we are building deep water ports, where? In Iraq. And we are not building them here in Ohio. We are not building…

Ms. Kaptur, do you remember when the President talked about ownership society? The rest of the sentence was, it is not going to be Americans that will own America. It is those whom we are indebted to. We are selling ourselves to other…

Just a minute. They are holding Treasury notes, and the American taxpayer is sending money to China for the interest payments on those American negotiable instruments, on those Treasury bills. We are supporting education in China.

Of course not. I think we all know that is an inaccurate statement, but I think what is interesting or even more interesting----

I think just to underscore, Mr. Speaker, what we are talking about here tonight is the overall Republican economic policy that favors the top 1 percent of the American people.

I think this is fascinating, as you go through this litany of consequences of, you know, Bush, Republican, neoconservative economic policies. I think what we see here, the cumulative effect in the aggregate of all of these policies is the…

What do we get? Do you know what we get? We get a price of gasoline per gallon that cost $1.45 4 years ago. We now can buy it for $3.25. That is what we get.

It is even the relatively affluent. They are not doing anywhere near as well as the top 1 percent.

Ms. Wasserman Schultz, please just don't say it is the poor. It is not the poor. It is the middle class.

Yes. That is not all he said, Mr. Speaker. Again, this is Mr. Toomey, President of Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy group, who served in this Congress, Mr. Speaker, and this is what he is saying about the Republican Congress…

Can I just add one other. The prescription drug benefit, so-called part D, there was information----

That is a $10 billion bill. And we do not have the money, Mr. Speaker, to do that. We do not have the revenue to do it. We have to go into the financial markets and borrow that money. And this administration has established another record…

I guess the question is to the majority in this House and to this administration, where have you been? What have you done? Well, you passed last year the so-called Energy Policy Act. And that basically provided welfare to Big Oil. It…

But, Mr. Ryan, they are in charge here. They have to muster up the votes. Where were they? With all due respect to my friend from Ohio, they are in charge of the border. They are in charge of immigration. They are in charge, period. And…

You know, I think it is important to understand that in a democracy, if we are going to enjoy the full measures of citizenship, that those in power, those elected representatives of the people have to act in a transparent way and have to…

Well, I can assure you, Mr. Ryan and Ms. Wasserman Schultz, there will not be any oversight. There will be no investigation because this Congress simply will not do it. If there is one theme that has characterized the 6 years of this…

Well, I tell you what is happening. Because we are talking about oil, and we are talking about home heating oil, and we are talking about staying warm. We are talking about heat. And the heat is coming, because, you know, we are going to…