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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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Dec 17, 2005

I served on that committee my last term in Congress. I sat on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And that gentleman that you are speaking about had a relationship with the veterans that was unsurpassed. It was unbelievable. The veterans…

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Dec 17, 2005

We have been on the committee 3 years now, Mr. Spratt has been on the committee a few more years than we have, but when you first get on the committee, I think the leadership on our side has always told the younger Members who come on, you…

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Dec 13, 2005

I want to say, and I know Mr. Miller was being complimentary of us when he said he liked the culture of corruption, but I do not like it. I do not like it. I do not like coming down here and trying to inform the American people what…

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Dec 13, 2005

So when they say after 5 years of all of the misrepresentation and all of the lack of accountability and the incompetence and the cronyism and the corruption, the culture of corruption that we have here, when you come to us 5 or 6 years…

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Dec 13, 2005

Can I just make a point there, because I think it just fits right into there? $100 billion more in Iraq, $200 billion we have already spent, $100 million here for media campaigns. We have Republican media consultants slopping at the trough…

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Dec 13, 2005

Just to clarify that, we are running an $83 billion deficit just for one month, just for the month of November, which means we do not have the money; we are not taking in the money to pay out the bills, and we have got to go and borrow the…

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Dec 8, 2005

The Web site is www.30somethingdems@mail.house.gov, and I want to thank Mr. Meek for his leadership. He is down here every night, sometimes 2 hours a night, dedicating himself. He has two young kids at home, a beautiful wife that you leave…

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Dec 8, 2005

Being evicted. I mean, come on, we can do better than this, Kendrick. And that is what we are saying.

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Dec 8, 2005

And so did I. We are not going to have our troops in a forward area and have them not have what they need.

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Dec 8, 2005

We know when the shareholders ask the leaders of the corporation, we want to see the books, we want to see what is going on, the leaders of the corporation or the business cannot say no, no, no, you are not allowed to see that.

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Dec 8, 2005

And to take the analogy even further with the business, how can you just keep going on borrowing, borrowing, borrowing, borrowing, borrowing? That is all we are doing right now. This is the national debt today, $8.120 trillion. That is a…

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Dec 8, 2005

Yes, this is the 30 Something Working Group. Send us an e-mail at 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. Thirty, the number, somethingdems@mail.house.gov. ____________________

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Dec 8, 2005

I think that has been the focus of our friends on the other side. They have been so focused on taking care of their friends in particular industries that we have gotten away from the mission here, which is to strengthen the United States…

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Dec 8, 2005

We are in the process, I think everyone would agree, of creating a new economy. No one really knows what direction it is going to go in; but we know some of the fundamentals, like broadband, are a very important part of that. So why not…

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Dec 8, 2005

A lot of ours are foreign born who will return to probably one of those two countries.

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Dec 8, 2005

We should put it on our Web site, and I think we will have to do that. It was about here is the vision, here is why and here is why it is our call at this moment in history; and I think when you talk about something like broadband, you…

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Dec 8, 2005

It is a real issue. So we are borrowing money from a country that we are in direct competition with. They are taking billions and billions of dollars of investment that is coming from the United States and going into China, whether it is…

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Dec 8, 2005

I got this chart here. This is the end result. This blue is the Clinton-era budget deficits that by 1997 started turning into surpluses; and by the time President Clinton left, $128 billion surplus. And that was all based on the 1993 vote…

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Dec 8, 2005

The Chinese Government. The Japanese Government. The House of Saud in Saudi Arabia. I mean, we are borrowing money from China. I do not even want to get into the whole manufacturing and the rise of China and the competition that we have…

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Dec 8, 2005

What the Republican Party did today was make a lot of rich people very happy. That is the answer.

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Dec 7, 2005

Together America can do better and a stronger America begins right here at home. 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. Thirty, the number, somethingdems@mail.house.gov. Thank you, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Meek, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz…

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Dec 7, 2005

And time and time again you have the act itself, everybody knows what is happening, and then you have the press secretary come out, just like the White House press secretary said Scooter Libby did not know anything. Karl Rove did not know…

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Dec 7, 2005

No, I think you are being a little hard on him. His press secretary, Kendrick, said he did not know anything about it. Are you saying you do not believe him?

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Dec 7, 2005

Wait a minute. I think you guys are being a little hard on the Governor here, because his press secretary says that ``the Governor had no knowledge whatsoever of Rosemary's receiving that contract.''

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Dec 7, 2005

Exactly. And they can do whatever they want to do, take care of their friends, and do it using the taxpayers' dollars.

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