Tim Ryan: “I appreciate the opportunity to be here once again and follow up on the gentleman from Texas and his remarks that I…”

“I appreciate the opportunity to be here once again and follow up on the gentleman from Texas and his remarks that I think hit the nail on the head with regard to what working class families out in the heartland, in the Deep South are facing every single day. I think it is important that every policy that we push here in the United States Congress is a policy that addresses some of those deep concerns that they all have. Sometimes I think that this town gets into a little bit of a bubble. Two separate political parties that talk to each other, talk at each other, talk within each other, but we are in the midst of deep change in the United States. We are in the midst of the kind of structural change we have not seen in our country in a long, long time. We have an economic system, a Tax Code, a trade regime, that has not, quite frankly, been up to task to meet the needs of working class families. We have a healthcare system that, even though many changes have been made, I think, to help people get coverage, to help them afford their healthcare, it is still not up to task with the deep needs of our country. We have an education system that is not quite up to speed. The deliberations in this body need to be a little bit deeper. I think we need to take a little bit of a step back. We have tax reform that is on the docket this week.…”