Tim Ryan

So we are going from a guaranteed benefit for Social Security recipients to a guaranteed payment for those Wall Street investors. No matter what happens, whether the investments or the portfolios they are negotiating go up or down, they…

Let me just first say that the whole Congress, Republican and Democrat Parties, Independents, House and Senate, President, we are all very much in support of the troops who are out on the front lines, their families who are making…

We had the same situation here when we had the President of Afghanistan here, told us how great everything was going in Afghanistan, how there was not a drug problem in Afghanistan, we were going to have elections, on and on and on. I…

I was in college actually at the time of the great Contract With America, of which one of the fundamental principles was that we were going to have this balanced budget amendment. And my God, I mean, when we look at where we are today…

I think it is exciting what we have to talk about here. I think we have outlined pretty much what the problems are and the problems we face. The beautiful thing about this system is, it is self-correcting. We have elections every 2 years…

Exactly, Mr. Speaker. It is like a bad movie or a bad novel or we are demagoging the issues. But if the American people will take the time to not only listen to what our plan is but listen to our critique, which is, I think, is okay.

I just want to say, and I have tried to say this when we have come before the American public, that we are not making this up. I mean, I think it has gotten so bad and so much on the wrong track in this country that if they are just…

If you think your college tuition is high now, wait until we privatize your dorms and turn them over to Halliburton. Then you are in trouble.

The first administration in the history of the United States of America that has not made one mistake.

Top five exporters of electronics, countries: China in 2002, $8.8 billion in exports of electronics; United States of America, $2.5 billion. Let me repeat. China, $2.5 billion; United States, $2.5 billion exporting electronics. So China is…

I have had conversations over the past couple of weeks with some people in the entertainment industry whom I think also are going to be willing to take this and promote it to their fans as well. This is something that is really catching on…

What is interesting is that after having discussions, both of those gentlemen, they were in Cleveland a few months ago, maybe last year some time, and they came to Kent State University to have this discussion. We had a chance to talk a…

The Hurricane is in the green hair, along with the Maven. I have not watched professional wrestling since Jimmy Superfly Snuka and the Wild Samoans. And so to now meet the next generation, and I am sure the gentleman touched on this, how…

There is a huge voter suppression issue where young college kids... have been told that the local prosecutor would prosecute them for fraud or that they would lose their financial aid. So if you tell a young student that they are going to…

I saw the e-mail address on C-SPAN on June 22. My name is Dan Spitsburgh and I am a registered Republican. I fall into the 1 percent sub-class of voters who are totally undecided and will probably decide who to vote for immediately before…

Well, I want to say, too, you were talking about college education, and we only have a few minutes left. One of the studies that was done here, they are calling it the ``Boomerang,'' and this article was on ``CNN Money.'' It says study…

And let us be clear. Go to the board of elections, and they will tell you you cannot and you say, yes, I can. Do not take no for an answer when you go to the election board, because they just do not know. They are misinformed.

But the one issue I wanted to just touch base on for a few minutes, and I know it is getting late and our time is limited, about the mandatory funding. We have an opportunity to make sure that our veterans are funded every single year…

We need, you and I hopefully in our own little way, to raise the level of debate here to say it is not venomous, it is not malicious, it is not personal. We do not mean to personally attack anybody, but there are some real policy concerns…

There is going to be a great opportunity this week for us in the House of Representatives... This is going to be a clear message to the American people. Is this Congress going to support people who make over $1 million a year and say they…

That is the way the military runs. You cannot have someone low on the chain of command investigating Jack Nicholson, the top dog.

I know in Youngstown, Ohio, and in Niles, Ohio and in Warren, Ohio, and in Akron, Ohio, that people are feeling the squeeze; and people are losing jobs that pay $20, $25 an hour, health care benefits, pensions, 401(k)s, defined benefit…

The official Democratic proposal says that the Democrats would double the maximum petroleum grant to $11,600. Now, for many people that will cover pretty much most of your college television.

Rather than sit and watch our local representatives make laws which are unfair to young people, I decided to participate in my local democracy. I applied to register to vote at Williamsburg which required I also fill out a detailed…

And he is a National Guardsman. The kid loves his country, loves the State of Virginia, has not been in Arkansas all that much, and they are trying to limit his right to vote. I think that is the perfect example of why we are doing this…