Tim Ryan

We have a few minutes, but the majority treats government like it is their own personal sandbox.

As we come back on the 30-something Special Order, I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt).

I look at this like your homework when you are in school, and your teacher gives you some homework. The homework is due next Thursday. You have got to have X, Y and Z done. And, you know what, if it is due on Thursday, most kids will do it…

We have a quote over here. Victory means exit strategy, said Governor George Bush during Kosovo. Exit strategy. And here we are a couple of years into the war with no exit strategy. And if you ask for an exit strategy, you are helping out…

How about the gentleman, I cannot remember his name, a couple of weeks ago came up who had $87 million worth of contracts in Iraq he was in charge of and he was stealing money, hundred of thousands of dollars. In the 1990s he was convicted…

I think this goes right to the point that our friends on the other side, as much as we like some of them, are unable to govern. They just don't know how to do it. There is just total incompetence, from the economy, from the poverty levels…

I am not sure, quite frankly, if there is a good answer. I mean, what could possibly be the good answer? And the rhetoric that we get from our friends on the other side is that the tax cuts are stimulating the economy. The tax cuts are…

To the Koreans, and they are going to borrow the money. There is no one, Mr. Speaker, that could possibly hear this argument, no Member of Congress that could possibly hear this argument and not think to themselves why would we cut taxes…

Up to $70 billion, they are going to go to the Chinese, to the Saudi Arabians, Mr. Speaker, to the Japanese governments.

The Republican majority tomorrow is going to extend or reinstitute tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country.

Article I, section 1 of the Constitution creates this House. The first part of the United States Constitution creates this House. So we have an obligation for oversight. We have an obligation to balance the budget, and we have an…

One of the words that our President used was irresponsible; it is irresponsible to question what is going on. Is that responsible, that kind of fiscal undiscipline, reckless disregard for a budget in the United States? That is…

We are joined by our good friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Meek), who was getting an award tonight. I congratulate the gentleman. Welcome to the inaugural 30-something Live.

We are paying ghost employees in Iraq, and we are not allowed to question the validity of what is going on over there? How about ghosts paying some of my Adelphi workers who are going to get their salaries cut by 60 percent? Does this…

Then one of the questions we have here, Mr. Speaker, from Hayward, California asked, What is our mission in Iraq other than being targets for anyone with a weapon? That is really what we are saying. If you try to ask the administration why…

It is very loose. Adaptable. But it is good to see that you got your nap in this afternoon.

Well, we are not going to be able to get through them all, so we will lay down some basic ground rules here. We will not be able to get through them all, obviously, Mr. Speaker. We are going to have to take a few and maybe expound on them…

I cannot remember exactly which one of us said something, but it was to the effect that we had to tuck you in bed and make sure that you were getting your proper amount of rest.

Now, you and I, we are ready to rock and roll on this. And when Mr. Meek gets here, he is going to be ready to rock and roll. But we may have to break it down for our favorite uncle.

The Web site is 30SomethingDems@mail.house.gov. Send an e-mail recommendation to the Members of this body tomorrow. And bring your PJ pants. We may be here into the wee hours of the morning. We want to apologize in advance to the veterans…

We are not kidding here either. If you are watching at home, you might think these guys are out there telling a story.

And there are a lot of other people in the country because the poverty rate has gone so high.

Let us be a little more specific. Maybe the 30 Something Working Group will offer an amendment to the House rules to say that a bill specifically called the Deficit Reduction Act.

Supposed to be. The words at the top are supposed to identify what is happening.

Article 1, section 1 of the United States Constitution creates this Chamber right here, the people's House. And we have oversight of everything else that happens in the government, over the executive, over all the agencies, the Cabinet…