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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I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales.
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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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The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,
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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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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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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 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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Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done,
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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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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.