I will just say to my friend all you have to do is go back and look at 2002, 2003, and 2004. Look at the last 3 years of the Bush budget and you can see what happened. They have dug themselves and our country into a huge fiscal hole. Now what they want to do, rather than trying to get out of it, is going to dig us even further into that hole and try to make it look not so bad. They are trying to cut here and cut there, and doctor things up a little bit so it doesn't look quite so bad. They put zero money in there for Iraq.
Tom Harkin: “I will just say to my friend all you have to do is go back and look at 2002, 2003, and 2004. Look at the last 3 years of…”
On the recordFebruary 4, 2004
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Discussing the fiscal implications of the Bush budget during a Senate floor debate.
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