Tim Ryan

This is the moral argument of our generation. I agree with you 100 percent, but I think there is an economic component of this, too. If we are going to be a great nation economically, we need to have healthy children, who are going to be…

Just a reminder to send us e-mails at 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov, any articles or whatever, Madam Speaker, from our colleagues here so that we can talk about them on air. That is 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov.

Can we just say, if you have worked in the White House for 5 years and you are the chief of staff of the Vice President, indicted on five counts of lying and obstruction of justice, and you have the deputy chief of staff of the President…

Let us look at another provision on here that the Republican Study Committee is also looking to do: Increase the Medicare Part B premium by $4.6 billion.

That did not happen. The Republican majority in this Chamber rejected the proposal.

One of the provisions, as you said, was giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services who basically in his department administers the Medicare part D, this new prescription drug bill, giving him the ability to go to Merck or Pfizer or…

The bulk purchasing power, some studies say, would at least save 10 to 15 percent. I have seen some people say it could save up to 20 percent. So you take $700 billion and you take 10 or 15 or 20 percent of that, you are talking upwards of…

The next entrepreneur, the next business person, the next person that is going to go out and create wealth. And that is the whole thing with the Democrats. We are trying to convince the Republican Party that together America can do better…

Reclaiming my time, we are getting into some procedural stuff here, but the Republican Party does not need to offer amendments because they get everything they want into the bill during the committee process. They offer it. They do not…

Reclaiming my time, he did. But the same party that is overseeing him has left this man on the payroll making $148,000 a year.

Reclaiming my time, you are leaving all of the decision-making power in the hands of the 11 Republican Members.

We want a commitment from the gentleman, if he is willing to take responsibility, to establish with us a bipartisan committee like the 9/11 Commission to oversee Katrina in which Democrats and Republicans both would agree and both have…

Two months earlier, the VP told Scooter Libby about Joe Wilson's wife; and then he says 2 months later, to Tim Russert, I do not know Joe Wilson.

Tim Russert, son of Big Russ, Buffalo, Ohio, John Carroll graduate. Mr. Russert says to the Vice President, this is 2 months after the Vice President told Libby about Joe Wilson's wife. Russert says, Joe Wilson says he came back from Niger…

Scooter Libby was the chief of staff of the Vice President of the United States who has been indicted under five counts: two counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. So the Vice…

Do you know why? Because the kids that have to pay this debt, that $8 trillion, they are not just Republican kids, they are not just Democratic kids, they are kids born in the United States of America.

So are you saying that the interest that the American taxpayer pays on the money we are borrowing from China is being invested on the Chinese people to create 600,000 engineers a year?

And we are getting lectured to by people telling us that that party on that side of the aisle is responsible? Is this responsible? Is that good leadership? We have not seen good leadership out of this administration yet. Come on.

This is cronyism at its best, because this fellow is not the least bit qualified to be in charge of FEMA. The top 8 or 10 people of FEMA were all political appointments of people who were not qualified. We want an independent commission to…

I think the Republican Party, after they give the $16 billion in subsidies, will head out to shakedown street, K Street, where all the lobbyists are, and they will say, hey, we just gave you $16 billion in public taxpayer money, and…

A good first step, $16 billion in subsidies to them. They have not done anything with trying to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, allow for reimportation, allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate down the drug…

There is a certain amount of corruption within the system, is there not, when that happens? There is just a certain amount of corruption and incompetence in the system. Now, I know our friends, they like to say, well, all the Democrats…

Record-breaking spending, record-breaking deficits. The party of fiscal conservatism has become an absolute joke. It has become a caricature of itself. Here is a conservative that we may disagree with on many, many issues, Cal Thomas of…

That is $27,000 for each person. So if you are a baby born today, right now, my nephew, Nicholas, born 3 weeks ago, he owes $27,000 to pay for the debt. Now as we look at the numbers, as the gentlewoman stated earlier, he is going to go to…

Sixteen Democrats voted to reduce the fees, eliminate all fees that would increase the cost of receiving the loan. Sixteen Democrats voted for that amendment. Twenty-two Republicans voted against that amendment.