Community action agencies have been wonderful in many ways. First, because they involve local people.

That is why this is just so vitally important on these Pell grants to make sure that we continue those.

when the President says he is going to veto any bill with earmarks, he is going to have to veto his own budget.

I will do everything I can to prevent that from happening.

The President has proposed cutting CSBG funding by 50 percent. This will dramatically impact our most vulnerable families.

We are moving toward better school feeding programs, more fruits and vegetables in our school lunch programs.

For a program like Head Start, that would mean cutting services to 120,000 kids across the country.

We know that, in the years immediately ahead, we must take aggressive, painful, and unpopular steps to bring the deficit under control--both by cutting unnecessary spending and by ending unaffordable tax breaks for the wealthy.

Thank you, Senator Harkin, helped us to secure.

Bad morals, too.

I intend to push for a wide range of additional spending cuts, including eliminating expensive Cold War-era weapons systems.

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 hope it doesn't come to that.

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.

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 deficit under control.