Tim Ryan: “Let me just take this from 30,000 feet for a minute and reiterate what the gentleman from Ohio said. We have too much…”

“Let me just take this from 30,000 feet for a minute and reiterate what the gentleman from Ohio said. We have too much private money in the people's House. We can't get anything done now because it somehow may affect what Wall Street is doing. We had a China currency bill on the floor last year, 350 votes, 99 Republicans. We can't even get it up for a vote now in the House because Wall Street doesn't want it. We're in dire straits with trying to balance our budget. We need to ask people making more than a million dollars a year to help us close this gap so we can reinvest back in our country. Nothing is happening because Wall Street doesn't want it. We've got oil and gas still getting benefits when profits are going through the roof. We can't close that loophole because the oil and gas industry doesn't want it closed. There is too much private money in the people's House. We need public funding of elections. Let every citizen kick in fifty or a hundred bucks, and we run elections by letting people on the airwaves making these debates, making these discussions having a little bit of money to do it. We've got to reform this country and set us on a path to prosperity. No wonder we can't invest in public education, public health, public infrastructure, because the private interests are running the whole show here.”