Tim Ryan

If we do not get our fiscal house in order, it is going to get ugly pretty fast.

The Federal Reserve, whose primary goal is to manage our money, is involving itself in fiscal policy.

The Recovery Act helped save or create up to 3 million jobs in the year 2010, and lowered unemployment by up to 1.4 percentage points in 2011.

The day President Bush left office, the day President Obama was sworn in, the economy was collapsing at an even faster rate than originally thought.

The politically unpopular, but economically necessary TARP legislation, engineered by the Bush Administration, and the Recovery Act, by the Obama Administration, averted, and I quote what you said earlier, 'an extraordinarily severe…

I do find it troubling at a time when millions of Americans are still out of work, many of our Republican colleagues want to strip the Federal Reserve of that part of its mandate that focuses on full employment and putting Americans back…

In terms of the highest income or highest expenditure in last 50 years, 50 years ago I was probably making around $200 a month, take home, and today, 50 years later, I have the highest income that I could ever have imagined or ever dreamed…

So that is the change from last year's baseline to this year's baseline? What is the delta?

I mean, no one here is happy with where we are at today, believe me, I represent Youngstown, Ohio; we have the poorest city in the country.

The president's health care law cut Medicare payments to providers by $500 billion over 10 years.

The combination of policies cannot be sustained over the next quarter century.

We should take immediate action in this House on the jobs plan the President submitted to the Congress last September.

The Recovery Act did serve its purpose.

I want to make it clear: I am not proposing that we change all the current policies, but I think this does give us a very clear indication of the order of magnitude.

I am just going to quickly put up two charts and then I will conclude my opening statement.

I hope this Congress will come together and do it in a way that makes sense.

The Congressional Budget Office's report underscores the need to address the looming deficit in a balanced, reasoned way.

We should finish the job with respect to extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, and making sure that unemployment insurance is there for people who have lost work through no fault of their own.

40 percent of providers will become unprofitable by 2050 and therefore go out of business.

I want to wish our colleague, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, our very best in her recovery and make sure she knows that she will be missed.

If the gentleman will yield, I think there's really something to this idea that there's a lot of things that happen that support our economy that we take for granted, that we don't see all the time. And I think what you're talking about…

We need transparency on the actions of the PBGC and the administration regarding the treatment of the Delphi salaried retirees.

So if we level off the playing field with these guys, we can compete. With transportation costs going up, we can compete. We have the productivity. We have the workforce. We just need a level playing field. So I ask, Mr. Speaker, that this…

I saw Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor. He was saying these are 100-year-old systems in Chicago. Do we really think that Pittsburgh and Cleveland and Akron and Youngstown and Toledo have $1 billion to go make these investments? But if we…

I just think we're competing directly now with China in such a significant and direct way. So we put, say, $8 billion in the stimulus package for high-speed rail. I think China is spending tens of billions of dollars----