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Tim Ryan

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Tim Ryan is a Democratic politician from Ohio, known for his service as a U.S. Representative. He has represented Ohio's 13th congressional district since 2003, focusing on issues such as job creation, education, and healthcare. Ryan has been an advocate for manufacturing and has worked to support the middle class in his district. He has also been involved in various initiatives aimed at addressing the opioid crisis in Ohio. In 2020, he ran for the Democratic nomination for President, emphasizing a message of unity and economic opportunity.

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Feb 15, 2006

It is an important answer. What else could the government do with the interest the country pays every day on the publicly held debt? We could invest $1 million a day, Mr. Meek, in every single congressional district. Every district. So at…

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Feb 15, 2006

There have been a few Members who I consider very good friends on the other side of the aisle who have over the past few weeks and few months have really come out and said we have got to get rid of the corporate welfare, we do have to make…

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Feb 15, 2006

To get ahold of us, any of the Members who are in their offices or anyone else, the Website is www.housedemocrats.gov/30Something. All of the charts you saw here tonight are available on our Web site, and we will be back in an hour…

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Feb 15, 2006

In fact, I thought that was a joke. In fact, I wrote it down in a journal, and I laughed about it later in the day because I thought it was a joke. Then I find out that they are serious. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Mr. Inslee.

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Feb 15, 2006

Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of the people in the whole, entire country.

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Feb 15, 2006

They are begging for the leadership that we should be providing in this Chamber.

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Feb 15, 2006

I want to make a distinction here. This President finds the time and the energy and the commitment to put $16 billion in corporate welfare into the energy bill, finds the time and the energy and the commitment to put billions upon billions…

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Feb 15, 2006

I just want to show you the graph that we have here. I would like to welcome all the gray hairs to the 30-Something group. And you, obviously, Mr. Delahunt, the gentleman from Massachusetts, has been here for a while, so your gray hair is--

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Feb 14, 2006

Www.housedemocrats. gov/30something. All of the posters that we had up tonight you will be able to access on the Web site. Again, I think that is an important point. Democrats have consistently tried to put fiscal restraints on this…

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Feb 14, 2006

That is the problem. Article I, section 1 of the Constitution creates the House of Representatives, and our job is to oversee everything, including the administration. So if they are at war, we should be overseeing this. And if there is a…

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Feb 14, 2006

And OPEC. And OPEC. Did I mention OPEC? But this is an issue that, Kendrick, we need to oversee what is going on here and the Republican leadership does not want to provide the proper oversight. It is a waste of taxpayer dollars which goes…

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Feb 14, 2006

Well, can I interject, because I can, this may be going to build schools; but it is going to build schools in China, because they are making money off of us. It is going to build schools in Japan, which of course we want the kids all over…

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Feb 14, 2006

Well, then, this number, my friend, the purple lavender, it is a nice lavender, it needs to be at the level of the red. The education needs to be up here, and the net interest on the debt needs to be down here. Then we will start talking…

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Feb 14, 2006

Do you have the number on the trailers, how much that cost? Because I heard it today, and I am sorry to interrupt you, but I think this is a salient point that we need to make.

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Feb 14, 2006

It is the cost of the K Street project, and the average person that pays taxes foots the bill.

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Feb 14, 2006

It is good to join the gentlemen. As we are talking about the debt and we are borrowing this money from the Chinese, from the Japanese, from the Koreans, from the OPEC countries, as we borrow that debt we have got to pay interest on that…

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Feb 8, 2006

What is interesting about the $2.2 trillion is that is more money than this country borrowed from the inception of the country to the beginning of Ronald Reagan's Presidency. So just in the Bush administration alone we have had to raise it…

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Feb 8, 2006

That is correct. Www.housedemocrats.gov/30- something. And this will be the Web page that pops up, 30-something Working Group. Then you go to the bottom and it says, our posters. So you will be able to get to our posters here.

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Feb 8, 2006

Yeah. And they are really good, because we have taken all of the information that Tom Manatos here, who is our go-to guy with the 30-something Working Group, kind of boiled it down, and you will be able to see our third-party validators…

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Feb 8, 2006

Right. This is not a game. This is not a game that needs to be played. We switch the numbers here, and we switch them here. This is important, because as of February 8, which I believe is today, $8,200,380,327,202 is the national debt. And…

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Feb 1, 2006

I appreciate that, my good friend from Florida. We are about to wrap up, and I think what we are saying is, we want a chance. We want an opportunity to lead this country. As we close here, Mr. Meek, I just want to say that our caucus had…

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Feb 1, 2006

I appreciate you sharing, and I bet when you were in grade school that your teachers put on there ``Kendrick Meek plays well with others.''

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Dec 17, 2005

Have a very happy, joyous holiday season, because we are all Americans. And I would like to now give the e-mail address here: 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. That is 30, the number, somethingdems@mail.house.gov. Does the gentleman from…

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Dec 17, 2005

And also Mr. Tom Manatos, who keeps us all together down here. Tom, you are the man.

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Dec 17, 2005

That is a great point because this is not your father's Republican party. This is not the Richard Nixon Republican party or Abraham Lincoln Republican party. This is a right wing agenda that is coming down the pike here with ANWR drilling…

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