Tim Ryan

That was the same, almost the same identical phrase that we heard from the Secretary, the new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, about 9/11 when she was National Security Adviser: Who would possibly think anyone would take a plane and…

I am stumped as well. I have no good answer for the gentleman. What I would like to do is the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) was throwing out some pretty large numbers to the tune of $1 trillion, if not more. In Ohio alone only…

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He was not only removed from the chairmanship, he was removed from the Committee on Veterans Affairs altogether.

Wait a minute. You are contradicting a statement here. The majority leader said, veterans need to know that no veteran will be without their health care in 2005 and no veteran will be without their health care in 2006. Is the gentleman…

Or that they just want to win, Mr. Speaker. If the gentleman will continue to yield, this sometimes is not even about policy. It is about winning the argument, and they are losing; so they are trying to find a new way to win it, and it is…

This is so eerily familiar to what has been going on with all these other different programs. I do not know if you got a chance to talk at all about this, but remember the Medicare program? Remember how they had this great program that was…

Look at Wal-Mart. They have gamed the system. They pay their employees just enough for them to qualify for Medicaid, so they do not pay them any more. They do not give them health care benefits and they qualify for Medicaid. That is…

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That is right. They raise them at the local level, and in many instances those people at that level vote ``no'' on the school board levy. Some States, like Ohio, it is elected. It just cannot be assessed. So in Ohio, the average person who…

We hear the word ``freedom'' come out of this Chamber a lot. Is that young girl free? She is trapped. She is an indentured servant just like there has been throughout the history of, many times in this country, and many others. She is not…

We may have developed a new word or new phrase. We are advocating for value-centered trade, trade that represents our values and, hopefully, what we are trying to spread around the world, value-centered trade.

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A party-line vote went down. And that was on the health care side of it. That was on making sure our Guards and Reservists have coverage regardless. And the gentleman brought out the numbers and it was maybe a billion dollars, but these…

Exactly. And we have the money if we wanted it, if we wanted to ask the top 1 percent to make a sacrifice to help fund this. That money will work its way back into the economy anyway. The fact that that is bad for the economy is an…

The gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor) offered a motion here to recommit a couple of weeks ago.

Look at the numbers here. The reason the gentleman is upset here in trillions of dollars over 10 years, we have a graph. We have to have a graph for everything. Permanent tax cuts, 1.18 trillion over 10 years. Tax cuts for top 1 percent…

I remember last year as well, we did the same thing for veterans benefits. It was an increase of, I do not remember how many billions of dollars, but it basically made it full funding. But it had to reduce in kind dollar for dollar what…

And patriotic. Quite frankly, tell the wealthiest people in the country, we would love to give you a tax cut. Who would not? Who in politics would not like to tell a really rich person I want to give you a tax cut? I mean, that would be…

Another part of the Democratic platform, one that we will be issuing in the next few months, is financial literacy. Combat this at a young age, combat this. These kids are in grade school and high school and teach them about the stock…

We have freedom french fries down in the House diner. We do not have French fries, we have freedom fries. Freedom. Is this freedom? Is owing $29,000 when you get out of college freedom? Is owing the government $27,000 freedom? Is that…

In 1993, a Democratic House, Democratic Senate and Democratic President passed a bill that balanced the budget; and we began to pay down the debt in the country because we were running at the surplus level.

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Absolutely. The source is CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, nonpartisan. The most scary aspect of all of this is if we are spending 400-some billion dollars more than we are taking in, we are borrowing that from somewhere because we do…

I think this is the issue for me, that this is the crisis. This is just the issue that how can we say that a problem 40 years out from now is the crisis when you look at the numbers here. This is the crisis here. This is the manufacturing…