Tim Ryan

The key to credit availability for consumers right now is securitization.

The real responsibility on compensation lies with the directors, who have been placed in their job by shareholders and that is their job.

Clearly, we have global financial institutions, we have global capital markets.

We need confidence in the system. There is no confidence today.

I would say it is a uniform view among the core members of our group and of his group that we feel comfortable recommending a systemic risk regulator that would have no real limits on their authority.

The testimony is intended to be all encompassing, principally so that the regulator has the authority should a private equity firm be deemed to be systemically important to have authority to ask for information to regulate that entity.

Well, we have other illustrative charts here. This is the Outer Continental Shelf: The acres that have been leased and the acres producing. So this is in the Outer Continental Shelf already, 44 million acres, and only 10.5 million acres…

This is not Sierra Club. This is the Minerals Management Service within the Department of the Interior. This is not us making this up. The 30 Somethings, we're big on the third-party validators.

I am sorry. I don't feel bad for the oil companies. They want to go drill here and we won't let them. There is a reason. Why wouldn't we want to let them go to ANWR if it were going to be this big major solution? Here are the facts of the…

And one of the issues that was brought up today by the President that we want to discuss--and I very much appreciate you making the presentation as to the other side of the debate that our friends made over the last hour. But a couple of…

Oil has become a major, major geopolitical and domestic problem in the United States of America. It has come to a head, and it is Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and the Democrats who are trying to move us off the dime and say long-term…

I think it is important, the American people are onto this. They have been dealing with this problem now for like 35 years.

This is the pressure point. This is the issue facing our country, and we are going to keep speaking out on it.

And I know you have water projects there and education projects there. You have energy projects there. If we are going to have the kind of development that we have, the economic development that lifts up all congressional districts, we…

And I would just like to say, go to our Web site. Look at what we've done for K-12, student aid, rural development, the farm bill. All of the things that we've passed out of here have been investments, actually met the President's budget…

We have got more here. The gentleman from California, the previous gentleman, who just made fun of us for all the earmarks, had 20 earmarks worth $38 million and is supporting one now named after the former Chair of the Ways and Means…

I bet if we talked to some of the troops and we asked them what it means to be an American, they would say it means to be free and to be able to achieve the American Dream.

I think it is important, too, to recognize we are just beginning. I think we have moved into a new direction. We are clearly not done. We are clearly not close to being done. No one here is satisfied. No one here will say, This is great…

We joke around about baseball and Cleveland, Mr. Speaker. The Cleveland Indians are doing great, but Cleveland is the poorest city in the entire country. There are a lot of kids in that city who would, hopefully, be eligible for this…

Can we live in the present? The Dalai Lama was here today, Mr. Speaker, and he's pretty much focused on how we should live in the present moment, and I think it would behoove all of you to take the Dalai Lama's advice on that.

I just want to say, the argument that you are going to hear over the next day is socialism. As the gentleman from Florida just said, it is like, what are you talking about? Go in to private hospitals, private doctors, there is no question…

I want to in closing just say that hopefully, and I think this has, that there is a real move afoot in Congress, whether it is with your bill regarding transportation and Mexican trucking, Rosa DeLauro talking about food safety, toy safety…

And it is a tedious task. People can make a few bucks doing it, I have noticed, but at the same time it is very rigorous. But at the end of the day, we decided as a country we would rather have safer roads. These trucking companies do not…

It is called cherry-picking, and you are getting the results. But at the end of the day, you don't have a system in place in the Mexican domestic government, the civilian side, to monitor this to say that every truck that comes through or…

Without having this system in the infrastructure in place to say that every truck in the future that is going to go on the road, this is just maybe fixing up trucks and picking the right people to make sure you get the right results.