Pat Ryan

It's a disgrace. We have soldiers – I had this in my unit when we were deployed overseas in combat. Their families were home on food stamps, using SNAP benefits.

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.

We're not doing enough. We don't have the urgency. It – it needs to be a national problem.

I would like and will continue to push for investments in single-seat ride for west of the Hudson for my constituents and all the residents of the Hudson Valley.

As you might imagine, the congestion pricing conversation is very much on the minds of my constituents who, along with me, are, frankly, very upset--I would say furious--over this plan.

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.

The MTA is rolling out what I think is an unfair, uninformed, and unacceptable congestion pricing plan.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't get up very often and speak much on the floor, to be honest. What I heard in the few minutes here from my colleagues is, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said…

By ignoring the bipartisan Senate bill to provide support to our allies, instead of keeping faith with our allies in Ukraine, who have stood proudly and strongly against all odds and against all expectations, and who continue to do so…

I thank my colleague from Florida for the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of my Hudson Valley community to honor the memories of the community members we lost on October 7 and to plead and to demand the safe return of all of the Hudson…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 581. Amendment No. 91 Offered by Mr. Gosar The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 91, printed in part A of House Report…

The 17/I-86 upgrade is critical for continued economic and community development in Orange County, the Hudson Valley, and lower NYS.

I recognize the economic potential that can be unlocked by having strong airport infrastructure not just at the very biggest, most famous global airports, but the ones that really matter to regions.

I want to also just emphasize again, from my and my district's perspective, the rail safety issue, to commend you and your team already for the work.

I appreciate your commitment to personally look into this.

Prices, on average, for consumers have increased 16.6 percent since President Joe Biden took office, and wages have not kept up.

We have to, as Americans, be able to figure out how to navigate this.

the number one question that I hear still in our office is, why have we not received an Individual Assistance declaration?

This has been a loss in annual purchasing power of over $5,100.

So, more spending is not the solution to inflation because if all of those spending programs worked as well as my Democratic colleagues have claimed, well, why did we stop at $3 trillion or $4 trillion of spending?

Massive borrowing by the Treasury and monetary financing of deficits by the Federal Reserve created 40-year high inflation and imposed a hidden but heavy tax on the American people.

Inflation transfers wealth from the people to the government, and, frankly, there is no better definition of a tax than that.

I estimate that for the typical American family, they are paying an additional $1,800 a year now in higher financing costs compared to January 2021.

It is not student loan forgiveness. It is student loan transfer.