I intend to push for a wide range of additional spending cuts, including eliminating expensive Cold War-era weapons syst...
Certainly, we took an important first step by passing, I think, the new health reform law, which will reduce the deficit...
The Constitution of the United States gives the power of the purse to Congress, not to the President.
I just want you to know this is one United States Senator that appreciates bureaucrats like you and the kind of job that...
Sixty-three percent of our kids left our Head Start program at or above proficient, ready to go to kindergarten.
I hope it doesn't come to that.
Community action agencies have been wonderful in many ways. First, because they involve local people.
when the President says he is going to veto any bill with earmarks, he is going to have to veto his own budget.
I have been very encouraged by what Secretary Vilsack has been doing with our guidelines.
We must also continue to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.
Only Congress has the power of the purse and not the executive branch.
I will do everything I can to prevent that from happening.
we anticipate that will probably happen.
We know that in the years immediately ahead, we must take aggressive and painful and unpopular steps to bring this defic...
the allocation your office helped us with to continue this work did not pass the house in the omnibus bill
I will also insist on adequate funding for critical initiatives that help Iowans and all Americans to get a good educati...
We need to maintain investments that are critical to the future of our American family, even as we reduce spending overa...
WIA efforts clearly have positive results, but Federal funding levels are too low to meet the need.
