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Tim Ryan: Well, $50 million for children's health care or 5 months more in Iraq, let the American people make that decision. Poll…

On the recordJuly 11, 2007
Well, $50 million for children's health care or 5 months more in Iraq, let the American people make that decision. Poll that, get the focus group out and figure that one out, where the American people are going to be. They're going to be with the leadership. They're going to be with the Speaker. They're going to be with the majority leader in the Senate. They're going to be for making these investments. And I just love, Mr. Speaker, how our Republican counterparts went way back to 1992, they went into the deep parts of the Republican library, the CATO Institute and everywhere else, and they pulled out the 1992 talking points, and they've dusted them off and everything's socialism and union bosses. And it's typical of why they're not in power.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing funding for children's health care versus military spending during a House floor debate.

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