Tim Ryan

I do not want that either. I am not ready. But if I pass out here and I die, the Governor in Ohio will call a special election and people will run for my seat and have to get elected here. That is the bottom line. This is the people's…

One of the things, among others, what we would try to do, as we try to reconcile the budget, is not give $70 billion in tax cuts that go primarily to the people who make more than half a million dollars a year. The whole idea of this whole…

Almost 60 percent of the American people believe that Karl Rove needs to resign, 60 percent. This is not me or my colleagues or the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt), who failed a little bit on us tonight. We tried to squeeze him…

Why is that? Can I ask, can we have a discussion here, a serious discussion, you know, at 11 o'clock at night? Why would the President not fire him?

We want an opportunity to take this Congress and this country in a new direction, change the way we are going and derive some independence. We are at 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. That is 30, the number, at mail.house.gov.

We have been talking for a little while here. I think it is important for us to just kind of recap before we get on to something else. The Republican budget that is going to pass this House tomorrow, probably without one Democratic vote…

They are just saying stop. The VFW is telling the Republican Party, Mr. Speaker, stop. Look what you are doing. You are hurting veterans. I mean, the executive director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars does not just say I am going to send a…

Understand that this situation is totally unacceptable to the VFW and its 2.4 million members and auxiliaries. We will do what is necessary to protect, in Lincoln's words, `He who bore the battle, and his widow, and his orphan.' These…

Yes, sir. 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. Send us your ideas, your comments, your thoughts. We appreciate them. We do read what you send in. We are going to be introducing some new methodology in the next week or so…

That is why we want the independent Katrina commission, so we could make sure we figure out what we are doing, but we fear that when we start pulling off the onion piece by piece by piece, that we are going to end up finding out what is…

The end result is not a good one. It is not an effective use of the taxpayers money.

Especially when Halliburton stock has doubled. I mean, all this is going on and Halliburton's stock's doubled.

Half a million dollars and up. So you get corporate welfare from the public taxpayer. Then you get tax cuts for people making more than half a million dollars. And then the money that does get sent here, we give it to Iraq and create a…

I am almost afraid to have this outfit that we have in charge here, Republican majority and the Republican running the executive branch, I am almost afraid to have them go out into the international community to try to rehab our…

So let us see if we can tie this all up. Our country gives billions of dollars in corporate welfare to the most profitable industries in the world that are having the most profitable quarters in the history of mankind. They are then giving…

We do not swear to the Iraqi Constitution. We do not come here to represent the Iraqi people. First and foremost it is the United States. So you are telling me that we are giving money to the Iraqis, grant money; but if we have a natural…

Yeah, because I thought they said that we could, did they not say something about loaning them? Well, we wanted to loan them the money, right?

So we are cutting health care, we are increasing the copays, increasing the premiums, but yet giving, we have created a welfare state in Iraq, in which we are not even asking the Iraqis to pay a copay or pay their premium.

Over 10 years. I wonder why they would not go to the oil companies and ask them to give back their billions and billions and billions in subsidies. I wonder why they would not go and ask the pharmaceutical companies. But what really…

Over 10 years. This is the same time that the Republican Conference wants to pass $70 billion in tax cuts; and we know when they give tax cuts, who they give them to. But I think it is important, because I forget the number of what the…

Medicare, the health care program for our senior citizens, our grandparents, our parents. And the gentleman is talking about the Senate making $40 billion in cuts.

That is what our generation is going to change when we take the country in another direction. It is time for us to start saying that we want the best and the brightest to come and work for our government. There used to be a day and age…

And some change. And we are continually running these structural deficits at over $400 billion to $500 billion, with a war and natural disasters. So we are borrowing money to pay for this.

Let us lay this out real quick before my colleague puts the cherry on top. So we have $17,500 in student loan debt and $3,000 in credit card debt. Run that out 20-some years. A child born today owes $27,000 to the debt that we have in the…

There it is. That is not Kendrick Meek saying that or Ms. Wasserman Schultz. These are CEOs.