Tim Ryan

It is a tool that is used by the predators to maintain a control over these minors.

We will keep up this fight, we will work with you, we will challenge those who need to do more.

This is a battle in which we have joined together. This is a true partnership.

I thank the gentlelady for her good work and good words. Our next speaker is from the great State of California which, obviously, has one of the most diverse economies. But many people think California, and they don't necessarily think…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, we've heard in the last hour or two people worried about lab rats at NIH, the zoos closing down. They're worried about cancer patients at NIH. Just a few. But if we want to provide health care to all…

And if you think about what the small business person who's suffered the brunt of these huge health care increases over the last decade or two, 120-some percent increase, I think, in the last 10 years for a small business person, their…

And to figure out how to target the technology. We were out at Walter Reed a few weeks ago, going through and seeing all of the various techniques and approaches that are being used for our veterans that are coming back, and they talk…

I have one point to make. Why are we talking about inequality and poor folks and upward mobility? The reason is we only have 313 million people in the United States. We're competing against 1.3 or 1.4 billion in China, and 1.3 or 1.4…

Yes. I mean, one of the things I'd mentioned a couple times toward the end is the combined sewer systems in all major cities in the United States. So if you take a city like Akron or Youngstown--mid-sized cities in the industrial…

To this date, the Administration has continued to try to thwart the lawsuit that has been filed by the Delphi salaried retirees, resisting requests for production of documents and discovery requests, and they have also resisted…

No administration should be able to take taxpayer dollars and pick winners and losers and also at the same time refuse to tell the country what they did with the money, what their justification and rationale was, and they should also not…

Without transparency, without justification, and in my opinion without respect for the men and women who dedicated years of service in earning their retirement benefits, the treatment of salaried retirees is particularly troubling in…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be postponed. Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Cassidy

Right. And if you look, comparatively speaking, now to what China is doing, what India is doing--granted they're developing countries--but they're spending 7 or 8 percent of their GDP on infrastructure projects. Here in the United States…

I want to thank Mr. Blumenauer for requesting this hearing.

So we are in agreement, it is an austerity budget.

If Dick Cheney was sitting in your seat, he would have had a different answer than you. Dick Cheney said deficits do not matter.

The real question is, what is the roadmap for America in the future? And part of this roadmap needs to include the investments that are in sectors of the economy that are going to blossom in the next decade or two.

We believe it is important to have responsible deficit reduction phase in across time, achieve the kind of results that we have talked about, and, at the same time, invest in jobs, invest in infrastructure, and that is the right way to…

I think most people would say that. I think probably many on the other side would say that.

I wish some of our colleagues on the other side were this excited when we were putting two wars on a credit card and having a prescription drug bill that was not paid for.

I'll give myself 30 more seconds to say we believe in putting seniors in charge of their health care, not 15 bureaucrats. Our budget does not change the Medicare benefit for anybody in or near retirement. But to guarantee that that promise…

Thank you, and I had a chance to look through your testimony, and I appreciate what you have been able to do the last couple of years.

As you said, you've got to ship that stuff. That stuff needs to be shipped. It needs manufactured and then it needs to be shipped somewhere on a road and over bridges and ports and airports and logistics facilities and everything else…

You either comply with what the Federal Government mandates, or too bad.