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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They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork.
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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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By the administration's own estimates, the new Homeland Security Department would employ at least 160,000 people,
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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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The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,
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This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick.
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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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would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities.
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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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we will have lost an important safety net for Wisconsin's dairy farmers.