Tim Ryan

Reclaiming my time, when you look at what happened in the late 1990s with what the Republican committees were willing to investigate going on in the executive branch, what they were willing to investigate under President Clinton, they…

Teddy Roosevelt. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I want to know where all the Members from 1994 went when they were saying we have got to run government like a business, we need a balanced budget amendment, we cannot afford all this…

Their plan, Mr. Speaker, has been implemented. We are now experiencing the results of their plan, cause and effect. They issued, they administered, they proposed, they passed year after year after year. Democrats, we couldn't stop anything…

Welcome to the race of life, and let the Federal Government hook a piano on your back.

And it is not like we have the money to give the person making a million dollars.

And where do we get the money to give the money to the millionaire to go buy a Hummer? We have to go borrow it. That makes no sense.

You are not investing in education where you have millions of students that are now college educated inventing new things, helping us with alternative energy. You have none of that. You are not investing in health care, where kids and…

It would be an honor for me to watch and listen to you read that with your new glasses.

--afraid to address the real issues today, that is the basis of incompetence, whether you are in government, whether you are in business, whether you are in coaching. Does not matter what your field is. If you do not admit you make a…

This is on Secretary Rumsfeld. He has shown incompetence operationally and tactically and is far more than anyone responsible for what has happened to our important mission in Iraq. Mr. Rumsfeld must step down. That is Paul Eaton, Army…

We went to war with a flawed plan that didn't account for the hard work to build the peace after we took down the regime. We also served under a Secretary of Defense who didn't understand leadership, who was abusive, who was arrogant, and…

When you talk about NAFTA, I remember during the whole debate that was supposed to fix the whole illegal immigration problem. So I do not think we can have this immigration debate without putting it into some context to say I thought NAFTA…

All the more reason, there are not many options here. The Democrats want to take this country in a new direction. We want to stop all the borrowing, we want to stop all the tax cuts for people who make $300 million a year, 200 million, 1…

I am sure you remember the debate, Mr. Delahunt, because you were probably leading it at the time, the debate when we are talking about let's loan the money to the Iraqis. Everybody said they are going to be able to use the oil for…

And giving subsidies is like giving a drug addict more drugs. Giving subsidies to the oil companies. We are getting old school here, with the legal pad.

This is a poorly run business right now. Our government right now is a poorly run business that wastes money. And in Iraq, they lost $9 billion that nobody knows where it is. Royalties on the oil companies that we are just not getting…

The Republican agenda today is to say the Democrats do not have an agenda. That is their agenda. That is all they have got. They have got no plan on energy, no plan on health care, no plan on education, no plan on reducing college tuition…

I am not saying that to brag. The Republicans could do it. They just don't. We have done it. And it is not being a braggart, but it was Clinton as President and it was a Democratic House and it was a Democratic Senate. And out of the…

As we go through this tonight, the 30 Something's two key third-party validators are the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Congressman Pat Toomey, now president of the Club for Growth, both saying that there is out-of…

You know what, it would be nice to represent a district where the economy is going great, would it not? Yes, it is going great. Look around, everybody is having a nice time. That will be great. Fortunately, I think in most districts that…

This is exactly right. This is a consequence of some faulty leadership in the Nation's capital. Oil companies profits in 2002, $34 billion. This is BP, Shell, Chevron, the whole bit. It gradually went up, in 2005, $113 billion in profits…

Is that in addition to the $113 billion in profit, and three times, triple what it was 4 years ago? The American taxpayers, those that would be overhearing our conversation tonight, are subsidizing those same oil companies to the tune of…

And not be able to go on a hunting trip, not be able to go on a fishing trip, not be able to go on some kind of family vacation.

The king. And I want this President to come hold the hand of somebody in my district. Go hold the hand of one of the 5.4 million people that just slipped into poverty. This man doesn't need his hand held. But we have got a lot of people in…

I realize you are racking up credit card debt. I realize you can't afford to put gas in your tank.