Tim Ryan: “Www.housedemocrats.gov/30something. All of the charts that you have seen here or have seen in the past will be available…”

“Www.housedemocrats.gov/30something. All of the charts that you have seen here or have seen in the past will be available on the Web site. But it is important, Mr. Meek, and I appreciate your vigorous defense of what the Democrats have done and what we want to do because we do have an agenda. We have a bushelful of ideas over there that we want to implement, and we need to state this pretty clearly. Article I, section 1 of the United States Constitution creates the House of Representatives. We are directly elected. You cannot be appointed to this body by anybody. So the American people speak here. When we get in, we will balance the budget. We will get rid of the deficits over time by restricting spending in certain areas, eliminating the corporate welfare, and asking someone who made $10 million in 2003 to actually pay their fair share. We don't believe that profit is a dirty word, but we also don't believe that we should go borrow money from China to give the wealthiest people in our country a tax credit. We will invest this money into reducing the cost of higher education. We will make sure that the least among us have health care and have a roof over their head and have food, which is a pretty basic necessity.…”