Tim Ryan

Well, my two mentors in Congress. Really, just to see you two standing next to each other puts a little lump in the throat. The good gentleman from Massachusetts, who we have been getting e-mails about from folks that say they just love…

And this kind of feeds into every single thing. This is always happening because we are paying so little attention to what the administration and government should be.

If maybe they paid a little more attention to actually administering government instead of, A, running it down and, B, trying to use the levers of government to try to hurt our own CIA agents, can you imagine the amount of time that was…

A former 14-year covert CIA operative, in regard to this whole CIA leak and the administration outing an agent: ``We're not being undermined by the North Koreans. We're not being undermined by the Russians. We're being undermined by…

We are going to keep on rolling here. We have so many facts to deal with. Part of the conversation that we were just engaged in is we know that Karl Rove lied to the American people. We know that Scooter Libby has misrepresented facts and…

You can get ahold of us at 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. We are going to get up these facts on the Web site, too, so you can follow them.

But the Democrats are the ones that waste the money. We are the ones that do not know how to handle government. Come on.

So you are saying, Mr. Speaker, I want to get this clear here, for the Members of the Chamber, you are telling me that Brownie, the guy that President Bush went down and said you are doing a good job, Brownie, when he really was not doing…

Our Web site is www.housedemocrats.gov/katrina. Become a citizen cosponsor to the independent commission so we can reform government the way it needs to be done. And 30-somethingdems@mail.house.gov. We have been getting a ton of e- mails…

I appreciate that. Quote: Seventy-two percent of farm subsidy money goes to 10 percent of recipients, the richest farmers, partnerships, corporations, estates, and other entities. Corporate welfare, my friend, to the oil companies, to the…

Maybe their plan was this: they said we will keep Brownie on, pay him $148,000, and when there is a situation, we will go to Brownie and ask, what do you think we should do? He will tell you. Then they do the complete opposite. Maybe that…

The world is watching. You are not doing a good job. You are doing a bad job. In fact, you are fired. Get out. What do you mean, you are doing a good job.

$148,000. Talk about rewarding negative behavior. Do you do that with your kids? Your kids come home, they took a spelling test, got a D, do you throw them $20? Good job, Kendrick. Go out and get another one. That is what we are doing. We…

How about this for short-sightedness. We are going to cut the Centers for Disease Control. Everybody is talking about the avian flu. We do not know what to do. People are making requests of the administration. I am sorry, but government is…

We are going to have to implement the same rule that we had to implement when the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) came. The gentleman is going to have to pay dues twice to the 30-Something Group.

The last part of this article about the Colonel, he says what my colleague just said, what he was just saying: You and I and every other citizen like us is paying the consequence. Whether it was a response to Katrina that was less than…

Our Web site is 30somethingdemocrats@mail.house. gov. We have been getting a ton of e-mails. Keep sending them. We love to get them. I appreciate the strong cast we have here and maybe tomorrow or next week we will be able to fill the…

Before I give the e-mail address, the cuts at the Federal level, it goes down to the States. The State has to make a decision to raise taxes; and then it goes from the State, the State is pushing it down to the counties, as was said; and…

Let us reiterate that point right before we go. We have about 5 minutes left. Every cut that is being made to fund the Katrina relief is being made to a group of people who do not donate to the Republican majority. They are Medicaid…

This is almost hysterical, in a bad sense hysterical. We were in the Committee on Education and the Workforce today marking up the TANF bill. We offered an amendment to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. Shot down. We offered an…

What is coming out of the conservative think tanks at this time, well, what is going to happen is these workers are going to get this extra money from the prevailing wage, and they are going to give it to the unions. Then it is just going…

They can go to the website at www.housedemocrats.gov/Katrina or they can e-mail us. We will put them on either way. But I think it is important we also need to get ahold of the people who represent folks at home, who come down to…

It is all about what is my title. After the greatest natural disaster in the country and everything that is going on, you are talking about your title. That just proves what we talk about a lot here with the 30- Somethings. It is more…

Evident by, my God, this guy is worried about his title after Katrina. Give me a break.

Well, we are going to do our best. If you are not watching baseball tonight and you were watching the 30-something Dems, our e-mail is the 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. We have been getting a ton of e-mails lately, so do not be afraid to…