David Obey
David Obey
David Ross "Dave" Obey is a former United States Representative. Obey served in the House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district from 1969 to 2011. The district includes much of the northwestern portion of the state, including Wausau and Superior. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and served as Chairman of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations from 1994 to 1995 and again from 2007 to 2011. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States...
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would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities.
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This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick.
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Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets.
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By the administration's own estimates, the new Homeland Security Department would employ at least 160,000 people,
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we will have lost an important safety net for Wisconsin's dairy farmers.
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We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to,
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Yet because the administration has not consulted the agencies it is moving around, the proposal risks creating huge new redundancies and unnecessarily expanding the size of government at a huge cost to taxpayers.
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The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,
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Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done,
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We have had to drag this administration kicking and screaming to get additional funding for border security. If he is finally serious about securing our borders I say 'Welcome sir, it's taken you long enough,
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represents yet another effort to conceal the full costs of meeting the challenges in Iraq until after the election.
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Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.
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It is a moral imperative that we adopt that amendment on the defense bill. Otherwise the $21 million in this bill for victims of torture is a joke and a sham.
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We have to take a look at what advertising itself contributes to added health costs, especially when it is aimed at gullible people.