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...
bill defense deliver delivering equipment oil support
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.
agency homeland huge security weigh
would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities.
additional border borders drag finally funding kicking screaming security serious taken
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,
fema
This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick.
bring divide people
Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done,
amendment conduct dime dollar games less neither operation provide single
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.
game money problem throwing
throwing money at the problem with no game plan.
agencies cost creating expanding government huge moving proposal risks size
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.
added advertising gullible health itself
We have to take a look at what advertising itself contributes to added health costs, especially when it is aimed at gullible people.
asked contracts information specific
We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to,
biggest disasters says smaller worry
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,
admission gross speech
The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,