Tim Ryan: “I think what is important, too, is we are not sitting here saying, and I do not want anyone, Madam Speaker, to…”

“I think what is important, too, is we are not sitting here saying, and I do not want anyone, Madam Speaker, to misconstrue what we are saying. We are not just saying we are going to write bigger checks and all these problems are going to disappear. Included in our analysis of that document are going to be hearing upon hearing upon hearing. I have seen the schedule. We are going to get into the nuts and bolts of that to figure out how we can make these programs run better, how we can make S-CHIP with the same amount of money or more money cover more people, how does it get executed, the same with what we need to do with FEMA. Obviously, we saw that in Katrina. Mr. Murtha's having hearings and Mr. Skelton in the Armed Services Committee about the war, and how do we make that mess go away and make it work better, the execution of war and what we are trying to do, how do we make this thing work better. So this is not just about writing bigger checks. This is about making this whole system run better and more efficiently and more effectively and serve more people.”