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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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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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.
bill billion budgetary corrosive hides laughable perception
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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What that, in essence, says is that you're not going to worry about the biggest disasters that could occur, you're only going to worry about the smaller ones,
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The services provided to patients are so much broader in scope than in the past, all of that costs more money and I believe that it all has value.
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FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency.
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every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' money is being spent by an agency which has been demonstrated under these circumstances to be incompetent.
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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.
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I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales.
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throwing money at the problem with no game plan.
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The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,
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We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to,