Tim Ryan: “I thank the gentleman. In line with what you were talking about on the infrastructure piece, I think it's important that…”

“I thank the gentleman. In line with what you were talking about on the infrastructure piece, I think it's important that we take a look at what investments need to be made in the country. We're living, unfortunately, in a narrative in the country where everything that the government invests in is a waste of money, according to some people here in the United States Capitol. No investment that the government could make could possibly be a good one. So we are forced into a discussion of either you're a socialist and the bureaucrats should be CEO of the company or nothing. What the Democrats are trying to articulate is for us to reestablish the formula that led to the great economic expansion here in the United States. We had figured it out. We figured it out. In just a few hundred years throughout the industrial revolution this new country figured out how to make investments, how to protect intellectual property, how to protect private property, and how to make investments in certain things that were going to yield dividends down the line, that were going to help business and workers alike all at the same time. And that formula was invest in infrastructure--invest in roads, invest in bridges, invest in ports, invest in the airports, invest in the research, invest in the space program, invest in military research that eventually would spin out into the world. We had the formula. Invest in our workforce, public schools, universities, GI bill. A pretty simple formula.…”