Tim Ryan: “I think it is important what you said. These aren't unreachable goals for us. These are goals that are achievable, and…”

“I think it is important what you said. These aren't unreachable goals for us. These are goals that are achievable, and they are very achievable in the early days. Many of these advances we could make within the first 100 hours, Mr. Meek, within the first 100 hours. Within the first 3 or 4 days that we are here, the American people are going to know by the legislation that we pass out of this House next January that there is a new America, and we are going to go in a new and a different direction. And all we have to do, Mr. Speaker, is just think about what will happen in those first 100 hours. We pass an increase in the minimum wage to $7.25. How many lives will that affect around this country? Six or 7 million directly, and then millions of others as the bottom gets bumped so the middle income people will get bumped as well. Cutting student loans. If you have a student loan right now and your rate is 6 or 7 percent, parents and students, loans interest rate will be cut in half within the first 100 days here. That is $12 billion. So many people may be saying, well, are you going to get the money? We are going to not give the oil industry $12 billion in corporate welfare. The American people have a choice to make. Okay?…”