Pat Ryan: “It is in our national interest to create a class of people permanently dependent on the government? No, it is not.”

This is the most powerful thing I have done in Congress, truly, very – it's very emotional, and it's pos – it's positive.

It's essential to have people that have been on the receiving end of foreign policy at the table.

the fact that zero dollars from this huge, multibillion-dollar plan are going to go to improve service to my constituents is incredibly frustrating, and, I think, a significant public policy failure.

I rise today to honor Elder Jim Childs, a pillar of our Kingston community, for his decades of service to St. Clara's Church, to his and my home city of Kingston, and to families across the Hudson Valley. Elder Childs was born and raised…