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This bill does nothing whatsoever to stop the fleecing of the taxpayer by listing earmarks on tax bills. - David Obey Quotes

This bill does nothing whatsoever to stop the fleecing of the taxpayer by listing earmarks on tax bills.

You've got the votes. Let's pass this turkey, get it on to the president, let him veto it, let's clear the air and then let's really sit down and do business, - David Obey Quotes

You've got the votes. Let's pass this turkey, get it on to the president, let him veto it, let's clear the air and then let's really sit down and do business,

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people. - David Obey Quotes

They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people.

This is just get-through-the-week stuff. - David Obey Quotes

This is just get-through-the-week stuff.

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, - David Obey Quotes

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,

Worry

[Obey is unbowed.] I think if you asked God, he'd say the Ten Commandments were a road map for living, ... Instead, you have these self-appointed pharisees who think the Ten Commandments can be turned into a stiletto to use against their political opponents. - David Obey Quotes

[Obey is unbowed.] I think if you asked God, he'd say the Ten Commandments were a road map for living, ... Instead, you have these self-appointed pharisees who think the Ten Commandments can be turned into a stiletto to use against their political opponents.

God

appreciated that a Christian would speak out. - David Obey Quotes

appreciated that a Christian would speak out.

[Obey struggles to balance the demands of his faith with the obligations of pluralism -- and for this, he receives few rewards. Recently, he offered an amendment to increase funding for child care, job training and domestic abuse programs as a way of] taking some of the pressure off women to have abortions. ... whose concern for life ends at the checkbook's edge. - David Obey Quotes

[Obey struggles to balance the demands of his faith with the obligations of pluralism -- and for this, he receives few rewards. Recently, he offered an amendment to increase funding for child care, job training and domestic abuse programs as a way of] taking some of the pressure off women to have abortions. ... whose concern for life ends at the checkbook's edge.

I think this goes far broader than public broadcasting. I think across the board there is an effort by Republican ideologues to force institutions across society to bend to their will. You see it in [House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay's raising hell with the courts and demanding they pursue his brand of justice. . . . You see it in this action here.

This is on a magnitude we've never done before. - David Obey Quotes

This is on a magnitude we've never done before.

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional, - David Obey Quotes

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,

The problem is that the agency that we are appropriating most of the money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional, - David Obey Quotes

The problem is that the agency that we are appropriating most of the money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional. - David Obey Quotes

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional.

We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to, - David Obey Quotes

We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to,

Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets. - David Obey Quotes

Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets.

we will have lost an important safety net for Wisconsin's dairy farmers. - David Obey Quotes

we will have lost an important safety net for Wisconsin's dairy farmers.

We're going to see the rest of it on the installment plan, - David Obey Quotes

We're going to see the rest of it on the installment plan,

Rest

represents yet another effort to conceal the full costs of meeting the challenges in Iraq until after the election. - David Obey Quotes

represents yet another effort to conceal the full costs of meeting the challenges in Iraq until after the election.

The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation ... The army is already stretched incredibly thin. We don't have the personnel to respond if we had other problems in the world. - David Obey Quotes

The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation ... The army is already stretched incredibly thin. We don't have the personnel to respond if we had other problems in the world.

Army

would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities. - David Obey Quotes

would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities.

By the administration's own estimates, the new Homeland Security Department would employ at least 160,000 people, - David Obey Quotes

By the administration's own estimates, the new Homeland Security Department would employ at least 160,000 people,

I'm concerned that the American public is rapidly being given the impression that this is the bill for the war. It's not. It's the down payment for the bill for the war. and (by) that I mean you ain't seen nothing yet in terms of the costs that are going to be coming at us. - David Obey Quotes

I'm concerned that the American public is rapidly being given the impression that this is the bill for the war. It's not. It's the down payment for the bill for the war. and (by) that I mean you ain't seen nothing yet in terms of the costs that are going to be coming at us.

War

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation, - David Obey Quotes

The president's speech was an admission of gross miscalculation,

They're going to require a whole lot more money than he asked for last night, ... The Army is stretched incredibly thin. We don't have the personnel to respond if we had other problems in the world. - David Obey Quotes

They're going to require a whole lot more money than he asked for last night, ... The Army is stretched incredibly thin. We don't have the personnel to respond if we had other problems in the world.

Army

throwing money at the problem with no game plan. - David Obey Quotes

throwing money at the problem with no game plan.

Money

FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency. - David Obey Quotes

FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency.

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork. - David Obey Quotes

They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork.

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, - David Obey Quotes

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,

This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick. - David Obey Quotes

This (the FEMA reduction) is something that isn't going to stick.

It's more than a little late. - David Obey Quotes

It's more than a little late.

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

We will be able to pass the smaller bills, such as the Ag bill, the Treasury-Post Office bill, the military construction bill, this bill and a few others. Come September, guess what! Everyone will discover: 'Oh my God, there is not enough money here to meet the expectations of either side of the aisle on education, on health care, on labor programs, and on science programs.' - David Obey Quotes

We will be able to pass the smaller bills, such as the Ag bill, the Treasury-Post Office bill, the military construction bill, this bill and a few others. Come September, guess what! Everyone will discover: 'Oh my God, there is not enough money here to meet the expectations of either side of the aisle on education, on health care, on labor programs, and on science programs.'

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

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. - David Obey Quotes

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.

I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales. - David Obey Quotes

I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales.

Mind

The report shows that Mr. Tomlinson was willing to ride roughshod over the law to impose his political mind-set on PBS programming, ... The Corporation for Public Broadcasting needs significant reform and vigorous oversight. - David Obey Quotes

The report shows that Mr. Tomlinson was willing to ride roughshod over the law to impose his political mind-set on PBS programming, ... The Corporation for Public Broadcasting needs significant reform and vigorous oversight.

Law

Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done, - David Obey Quotes

Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done,

I am particularly concerned about [the presence] of asbestos. - David Obey Quotes

I am particularly concerned about [the presence] of asbestos.

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,' - David Obey Quotes

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,'

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling. - David Obey Quotes

Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling.

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to
has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly
dysfunctional, - David Obey Quotes

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,

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