Tim Ryan

I hope you feel better. My colleague from Florida was down last week, sick as a dog.

And the poverty numbers are up so there are going to be more people applying for this or qualify for this program.

Let me do this, we want to give the e-mail address, 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. ____________________

We write the checks out of this body. The checks come if you are going to write the checks but not oversight.

Exactly. So they are picking their own personal political situation over what is best for the American people. Can you think of a better reason to take someone out of their leadership position? We all play politics here. We are just here…

We have said it 1 million times. Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution creates the House of Representatives. The people of the country govern. Anything that is created from there we have oversight of, and that is the essence of…

See, he graduates out of the 30-somethings next year. I am going to be a one-man show.

That is because the gentleman is almost his age. Tell the American people how old you are.

I want to welcome our newest 30- something member joining us from New Jersey this evening; but before I get into it, I want to make an announcement. Since we left here last week, we had last week off, and since we left here, there has been…

Well, see, I took a week and I watched. I was very timid. I did not want to make any mistakes, so I watched for a while. I watched my brother. I was being a little hesitant with the bottle, and my brother is like, jam it in there, you are…

It is a little late tonight. If you are still up, 30somethingdems@mail.House.gov. Send us some e-mails. We have been getting some really great ones, and a lot of them lately. ____________________

Well, I am just going to wrap up here in the final, unless the gentlewoman has any final comments.

A deficit, $500 billion? Now that is not even factoring in the war, a war that we got ram-rodded into, lied into. Is that the great triumph of ideas?

This is the Democratic bill that establishes a congressional commission to examine Federal, State and local response to the devastation by Hurricane Katrina. It is an independent commission. What we are doing, we want to ask the American…

Save their political appointments for the ambassadorships with a lot of beachfront property. That is where they put their political people. And we understand that happens. Do not put them in charge of FEMA. Do not put them in a position…

The website is 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. If you think we have cronies in government, do you think there is an abuse of power, a waste of money, things are tilted too much, the website is 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov.

Let us be sure how this works. This is a grand jury. This is not a prosecutor, this is a grand jury.

Before I give away the magic address here, I think we just need to call this what it is. This is a Republican committee. This is a Republican committee that will oversee a Republican mess.

And let us be honest. This outfit, this gang has had their chance for the last 5 or 6 years, in Congress for the last 11 years, going on 12 years. They have had their chance. Look at FEMA. Look at the economy. Look at the tax structure…

Those union dues, and let us make that quite clear, the argument against having Davis-Bacon involved in FEMA is that the money will go to union dues in those States. And 4.2 percent of the workers in Mississippi are union workers, and this…

And I think the 30-something Working Group is encouraging and 100 percent behind Leader Pelosi on this. We do not want to appoint anyone to this.

Why justify this? Why give some kind of credence or credibility to this nonsense that is going on? This is America, and so America should have 50-50. The Presidential election was about 50-50, and we should all be right down the line.

And so Republicans do not want certain people to testify. They have votes to prevent the Democratic group from saying, hey, we need to talk to this guy from FEMA or wherever, homeland security.

Are we not using the same formula, the same administration processes that we used during the war and are using during the war. The same exact ones that we lost billions applying this system or using this system for the war, we are applying…

30somethingdems@mail.house.gov. We are going to be trying to recruit college kids to go down and help with the clean up too. So it is 30somethingdems@mail.house.gov