Tim Ryan

I think what we need to do here the last 15 minutes or so that we have, I think we need to tell the Speaker of the House and the other Members what we are going to do when we get in.

That is about $16,000 a year even if it was adjusted accordingly; right? Eight bucks is about $16,000 a year.

I am offended that they are not offended. That offends me that they are not offended offended.

We have got to get past the rhetoric. Let's get past the words. Words, words, words, no substance.

You know, before I yield to the gentlewoman from Florida, you can't convince me that we can't do something about this. I can't be convinced of this. Proper investment. We can go back, GI Bill, space race, you know, we, as a country…

Can I interrupt here? It's tough to tell that she is a Gators fan tonight, isn't it?

Before we go, I know you have a Florida team in the Final Four this weekend, and I want to wish you the best of luck.

I hope you guys pull it off. Since there is no Ohio team, with a good conscience I can root for Florida.

I appreciate that. And you know, as we are beginning to wrap up here, I think it is important to make this point, because I am sure you did, and you guys have experienced this too. There is a certain level of frustration that I have…

I want to comment. This is the same article, from the GAO report, again, a third party validator, not from the 30- Something Group.

This isn't, Mr. Delahunt, and Mr. Meek, saying we are going to run a sting operation to check the ports and see how the borders are. This is the Government Accountability Office. This is their report, and they were able to sneak in…

One of the issues, too, is we are talking about this. We now have evidence where a recent report coming into our hands, through the United States Senate, that investigators smuggled in enough radio active material to build two dirty bombs…

We have a ton of snow, but no hurricanes. The fact that this government had days to prepare for Katrina and couldn't figure out how to do it. Now, we are talking about something that may happen that we will not have 5 days' notice to plan…

You guys are from Florida. We are from the Midwest, so we don't have hurricanes.

All of this money that we are borrowing, we have got to pay interest on it. And if we pay the interest on it, that means that we cannot spend that money in other areas or give it back, in fact, to the taxpayer maybe in the form of a tax…

This President has not vetoed one spending bill, not one. So to say Congress needs to get its act in order, Congress is spending and the President is okaying it. Then the President puts his budget, and this Republican Congress gets out the…

Yes, these are our priorities as a country. And we can stand here and talk about port security, and we can talk about education all we want, and we can talk about what investments we need to make in alternative energy sources, and we can…

It is great to be here. We have a lot to talk about again, as we wrap up another week of business here at the Capitol. There are a lot of issues facing our country, and I had a lot of meetings this week on different issues: education…

Time and time again. Madam Speaker, if Members would like to get ahold of any of the information, all of the charts we had here tonight are available on our Website, www.HouseDemocrats.gov/30something Also, Madam Speaker, my old high…

So if someone would say we are not telling the truth, they are saying the Coast Guard is not telling the truth.

It is not only the woman's right to choose. We have a variety of things. It is about throwing people in prison. Throwing people in prison, Mr. Delahunt.

This is the same party that in 1994 said that they were going to pass a balanced budget amendment to make sure that they balanced the budget every year. It would be a constitutional amendment. And here we are, 12 years later, and they are…

When you look at what you are just saying, what Mr. Delahunt was just saying, that the money is now, all these tax cuts, but yet they are still borrowing money to spend so they can give it to the health care industry or everything else…

Why would they not? They rubber-stamped it in June of 2002. They rubber-stamped it in May of 2003. They rubber-stamped it in November of 2004. Go ahead. Put it on there.

Can you imagine, Mr. Delahunt, if you are asking the American taxpayer who is already paying an increase of 15 to 20 percent a year in their health care, and now you are telling them, this is what you are telling them, this is the God's…