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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What we should be doing in this amendment is to provide every single dollar that we need to conduct the operation now going on in Kosovo. We should not provide one dime less and neither should we try to use this to play games with the budget.
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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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The defense bill should be about delivering equipment and support to our troops. Instead, it is being used to deliver a multi-billion bonanza to oil companies.
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They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork.
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They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people.
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This bill is replete with gimmicks. It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.
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This bill is replete with gimmicks, ... It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.
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This bill does nothing whatsoever to stop the fleecing of the taxpayer by listing earmarks on tax bills.
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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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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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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,