Tim Ryan

And it is a tough argument to make to say, when someone's struggling to say, no, no, you are really doing okay. Wait, no I am not. I have got to tell you it is kind of hard right now. No, I am telling you, you are really doing fine.

And I would suggest that the President's approval rating wouldn't be at 31 or 32 percent if the economy was going great.

Just to make a point. We heard a lot today, and I know I heard on the floor today a lot about how, as you said, the economy was doing great and how incomes were up. I think we have some facts that say otherwise.

Right. The money we pay in interest every year, $230 billion a year, we pay in interest on the debt. That is interest on the debt. Compared to education and homeland security and veterans, this is the number we are paying on interest. This…

And so if you are sitting in a community in Ohio or in the industrial Midwest or in New England or somewhere across this country where the jobs you have are being lost to China, and then you know that your government at the same time is…

The end result is that chart you have right there behind Ms. Wasserman Schultz. It is the $3 a gallon in gas. It is the no vision for energy down the line. It is high tuition costs. It is health care costs spiraling out of control for how…

He just articulated exactly what I was going to say, much more eloquently than I ever could. So maybe I will just point to this picture again, but I think Mr. Delahunt did make the point. If I could, the strength of our democracy over the…

If I can make a comment, thinking about the war and where we are right now with the whole war situation, that was all done in secrecy. No one knew what was going on. The intelligence was screwed up. Look where we are now. The energy plan…

Talk about a picture speaking a thousand words. Why do we have high gas prices? Why do we have the problems?

I think the overall point, as you stated, is exactly correct. But when the time came, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Meek, when the time came for the Republican Party to muster up enough votes to make sure a person making $10 million----

And it was another example of lack of focus, lack of leadership, lack of priorities. And look what our friend says again, our guy, Mr. Gingrich, who I like.

What you are saying is it is an issue of priorities, and why do we continue to focus down in Washington, D.C., Potomac fever, the Republican majority continues to focus on how do we get corporate welfare to the oil companies? How do we…

I want to say that this government run by the Republican majority is in complete disarray.

Mr. Meek, it is their money. It is the American people's money. They do not want it sent to Communist China to pay down the interest on the debt. They want it invested in the United States of America. They want this money put into our…

To end our addiction to oil by 2025, if we get around to it, and it will only be in half. And there is not the urgency that I think our constituents are feeling right now. Let us do something. You have the ability as President, especially…

Www.housedemocrates.gov/30something. All of the charts that folks see here tonight, Mr. Speaker, can be accessed on this website. www.housedemocrats.gov/30something.

I want to do one-third party final validator. The former speaker the House, Mr. Gingrich, the leader of the Republican Revolution in '94. He said the Republicans, they are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't…

Can I intervene here for one second because I am thrilled with everything that is happening here. But I came down here to listen to Mr. Delahunt a little bit.

About 6:30, 7:00 this morning my e-mail goes off. I pick it up. The third shift at a General Motors plant that I have in Lordstown, Ohio, the third shift is being eliminated, and 1,200 United Auto workers, nothing is official, but the…

As we wrap up, I would suggest that over the course of the next few months, Mr. Speaker, the American people will not get an answer from the leadership on the Republican side about what why the debt limit was increased by $3 trillion, why…

And it is because the President does not want any oversight, and the Republican Congress says, yes, Mr. President.

Gingrich is saying send up reform, lead, do something; this government cannot function. This is not just us. This is Mr. Gingrich saying the same thing.

That is the job. That is the job. That is the responsibility that we have here of oversight.

They are taking advantage of their power, and it is hurting the country. June 17 of 2003, Mr. Obey tried to increase port security, which is another huge issue we have been trying to do here. $500 million. And we will go through all this…

They found the votes to raise the debt limit. Mr. Spratt again offered the 2005 budget resolution, H. Con. Res. 393, rollcall vote number 91, March 25, 2004, right here in black and white. Republicans, how many voted to put spending under…