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Tim Ryan: it was interesting talking to Leader Pelosi the other day, and some of her conversations that she had were about she and…

On the recordDecember 8, 2005
it was interesting talking to Leader Pelosi the other day, and some of her conversations that she had were about she and our leadership team actually went out and engaged the technology community and sought their recommendations. They were saying we need to do this in the next 2 years. Our friends on the other side do not have a plan at all. We have a plan to do it in the next 5 years, and many people in the high-tech community are saying we need it done in the next year or two years. This is something that we cannot wait on, and I think the difference here is that we are showing very specific proposals here, very specific goals that need to be achieved in order for America to push forward in the 21st century. It does not happen with the same old rhetoric of the supply side voodoo economics. It is just not working. Last night, you know how you get on your computer and you just start floating around, and God knows where you end up. We got out of here late, and I could not fall asleep. So I got on my computer and I was floating around, and I got into some space stuff from the space program. Then I made my way to the space speech that President Kennedy gave in Houston in the early 1960s; and I tell you what, they have the audio version which is very cool. If any American wants to think about where we should be and the kind of leadership that they deserve from us, they just need to read that speech or listen to that speech.…
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