Tim Ryan: “Because I think it is so important that the American people and the Members who are watching this here tonight…”

“Because I think it is so important that the American people and the Members who are watching this here tonight understand that things will be completely different when the Democrats take over in January; that we will, within the first, not 100 days, Madam Speaker, Mr. Delahunt, but within the first 100 hours out of this House we will pass a minimum wage increase that will get us in a few years to $7.50 an hour; that we will, in the first 100 hours, cut student loan interest rates in half for parents and for students, which will save families $5,000 over the course of the loan. We are not rocket scientists. We are not saying we have some extravagant plan that is very elaborate and very complex. These are basic fundamental things. We are going to strip the oil companies of the $16 billion that they get in subsidies, and we are going to put that towards education and innovation and alternative energy sources. And all these things we need to do, Mr. Delahunt, in order for us to be competitive as a country.”