Tim Ryan

See, last night, you tried to one-up me with the chart, and now tonight you are copying my charts.

Then when we come down here, we will just take the chart from our office and carry it down here.

I wouldn't be too complimentary. This President hasn't vetoed one spending bill, and he comes to the Rose Garden and says the Republican Congress needs to control their spending. He has not vetoed one spending bill.

We don't have the money to give, so we have to go out and get it somewhere. We borrow this money from China, OPEC countries, Japan, to give to a millionaire so that he can get a Hummer. No American, I can guarantee you, believes that that…

And just to clarify, if you don't mind, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, as you stated, we do not have the money to give to these millionaires to go out and buy a Hummer. So where do we get it? I don't know even if we have a chart here. Mr. Meek has…

There was a gentleman at work who worked for President Bush, Douglas Eakin. Holtz-Eakin, former director of CBO for President Bush said, ``The long-term outlook is such a deep well of sorrow that I can't get much happiness out of this…

And even in the first couple of days, we will raise the minimum wage and cut college loan interest rates in half for parents and students. Just in the first couple of days, once we get this signed into law, we will recognize a huge…

That is it. We don't have some elaborate playbook that is going to run left and fake this way and run this way. Three or four different basic things, and you will see the difference between having Democrats running the government and…

And just those few steps that we can take in the first week that we are here, talk about taking the country in a new direction. Imagine if we raised the minimum wage that first day, imagine we cut the student loan interest rates in half…

Or at least have a discussion about how is this going to end; how is this thing we have in the Middle East going to end. We are not having that discussion. We are all patriotic; we all support the country. We are Members of Congress. For…

Making barely minimum wage. I have to quit my job because I cannot afford the gas prices as they are. I am better off going on welfare and registering for Medicaid. We have a system that is going against people who want to work. We want to…

Corporate welfare. Let us expand just for a second. Corporate welfare, $16 billion to the energy companies and between 20 and $30 billion to the health care industry. That is where that money is going. So if you are going to dethrone…

And whatever business you have, your customers are going to have more money to go and spend. This is the basic difference that we have between what the first President Bush called ``voodoo economics,'' which is the current system we are in…

Because it is not about us. It is not about the Democrats; it is not about the Republicans. It is about fixing the problems. I mean, we have got real problems in this country, serious, structural problems. And we do not have time to be…

To make a point, when we were talking about what we have control over in our own government and how we can streamline and do the audit and make sure that everybody is held accountable, I bet we know exactly where every single one of these…

This is the interest payments on the debt. This is the 2007 budget of what we are going to pay. It is about $230 billion just on interest on the debt. So all of those numbers we were showing, this is big time.

Tonight is a great night. Tonight is like super 30- something night. This is like great stuff. I mean, I am excited. I may need to sit a couple plays out tonight, because not only do we have the chief Blue Dog, we are hoping that at some…

You brought up the Republican lack of plan or planning or any agenda really. But I think we are living, as we said the last time we were here, we are living in the midst of an implemented neoconservative Republican agenda. Here it is. We…

And that is not what he was saying last night about Dallas when we were watching the game.

And in the context of this, where do we get the money to give the millionaire to get the Hummer, we don't have it.

So it is unbelievable to think exactly where we are and the lack of leadership that we have here. On that one poster you just had up, President Bush said the economy is benefiting all Americans. I find that interesting. I had some…

I just read today in a paper from American Progress, Scott Lilly, former staff member here, who wrote on the minimum wage, and I think he said in there that the minimum wage has the lowest value since the Eisenhower administration.

I think he made $390-some million. So they are paying this guy a $398 million retirement package, $2 million tax break, and companies like this are only investing $10 million, when they can give them a retirement package of $400 million…

Who was the one gentleman, Lee Raymond, that got big time money. I don't know how many millions he made last year. I know he got a $2 million tax break.

We don't mind you making a profit. Profit is not a dirty word. Go out and make money, hire Americans, this is good news. But do it in the national interest.