Tim Ryan: “What you are saying is it is an issue of priorities, and why do we continue to focus down in Washington, D.C., Potomac…”

“What you are saying is it is an issue of priorities, and why do we continue to focus down in Washington, D.C., Potomac fever, the Republican majority continues to focus on how do we get corporate welfare to the oil companies? How do we subsidize the health care industry, all our friends who donate us billions of dollars? How do we give tax cuts to the wealthiest people? If you made $10 million in 2003, Mr. Meek, you got a million-dollar tax break. That is where the focus is. And what we are trying to say here is that we need to focus on port security. So instead of giving a man or a woman who made $10 million in 2003 a million-dollar tax break, we want to spend that money protecting our ports.”