Tim Ryan

What I thought was funny today, or yesterday, in one of the local Capitol Hill newspapers, Roll Call or The Hill, the financial sector, the folks who lend money to the students were squawking, and it was blatant right in the article…

When you talk about PAYGO, and we were talking earlier about the college loan interest rates and in cutting these interest loans in half for both parent and teachers, the bottom line is we are going to cut those interest rates and make…

Just to clarify to the gentleman from Texas, our frustration is as the gas prices were high, you all were putting $12-15 billion in corporate subsidies to the oil companies while they were having record profits. That's the frustration.

Any time I can have an opportunity to give you more chance to speak directly to the American people, I will step up and I will take that opportunity, because I think the American people need to hear what you have to say.

I think the reason this is possible, Mr. Meek, the reason that this first 100 hours is possible and why it will happen, is because our leadership has gone to great lengths over the past couple of years to unify our caucus. Never before has…

So when you are looking at what we need to spend on and what the costs are here, whether you are a Democrat or you are a Republican, Mr. Speaker, we can agree that this money that has been spent to the tune of $400 billion, and when you…

Day in and day out, as we continue to have debates here on the floor of the House of Representatives, one of the main topics here and back in our districts is the issue of the war in Iraq, the issue of the standing, on the stature of the…

Because it comes down to this, that this is another, I think, election year situation. But the bottom line is this: We opt out of the Geneva Convention, and we make a certain set of rules to say how military prisoners should be treated…

If you just look at what the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) has said, ``Unfortunately, Congress is not ready to face the reality of the problem.'' He is talking about airline security. That is not us. That is not Democrats saying it…

WWW.HouseDemocrats.gov/30-Something. All of our charts and visual aids will be available on this Web site. HouseDemocrats.gov/30-Something. And you can e-mail us there, too. Any comments, please feel free. Members who are watching or…

30-Something Working Group www.housedemocrats.gov/ 30-something, housedemocrats.gov/30-something. And all the charts that you have seen tonight, Madam Speaker, are available on the Web site. I yield back to my good friend from Florida (Mr…

Mr. Delahunt, I have got to tell you, over August break I had numerous conversations with business folks, Republicans, card-carrying, who would talk to me about the fact that if they were running the business and Rumsfeld was their…

I think I am taken care of. The crack staff here at the 30-Something Working Group. I thought maybe you missed my being over in the other part of the well, and this made me nervous because I know how you like things the way you like them…

It is good to be back. There are several things that I want to touch upon after hearing some of the comments that have been made.

It is Charles Barkley. For God's sake, if you do not believe it, Mr. Speaker, that Newt Gingrich criticism does not hold water, Charles Barkley's should.

And I thank the leader and our leadership, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn and John Larson for the opportunity to be here. ____________________

We want to congratulate our 30-something. Ms. Wasserman Schultz here was rated ``One of the Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.'' And that is quite an honor. It is an honor for us to be here with you. Kendrick and I and Mr. Delahunt…

I enjoyed watching Mr. Gingrich over the past year or so be critical. But the funny part is that this is the neoconservative agenda we are living with now. It has been implemented. There is really nowhere else to go. They have given tax…

Or that the baby, in the country that this baby was born into, is going to owe $11 trillion to China and Japan and OPEC countries. This is bogus. This Congress is bogus, Madam Speaker. This is the biggest illusion, smoke and mirrors…

In this talk today, as we watched the press conference, the Iraqis have army and police force in one region that is in southern Iraq, where nobody lives. They have got control of it, and the Prime Minister is here with the President…

Ms. Wasserman Schultz, you are exactly right. It wasn't that they didn't like the answer, because it went to the appeals court and the court ended up ruling in their favor, that ``under God'' should stay in the Pledge. But they didn't like…

And the bill stripped the courts of hearing a case that the courts actually ruled in favor of what they wanted.

We are borrowing the money from China, Japan, and OPEC countries in order to fund the war and to fund tax cuts that are going predominantly to people who make more than $1 million a year. The average American person, Madam Speaker, does…

And not spending it in a manner which the United States citizens, from Florida and Ohio or Massachusetts or wherever they are from, would completely and totally and wholly disagree with where the Republican Congress is spending their…

Again, this is the 30-something Hour, Madam Speaker. This is the 30-something Hour, so we are talking about issues that are going to face generations to come, but I want to agree again with the statement that the previous speakers made…