Political Quotes

“I salute the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Young), the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) and others who put this package together. It funds the war in Iraq, and I strongly support that. And it funds some important homeland defense measures, and I support that. But I think this bill does not go far enough in protecting our homeland security and we have a responsibility to do something about that today. The Obey amendment would provide $197 million for additional funding to protect our U.S. military installations and the families, the spouses of our soldiers fighting in Iraq, the children of our troops defending our country through their bravery and courage in Iraq. These projects only represented, these security upgrades, and I am talking about fences around our military installations, guard houses, ways in which we can responsibly protect those military bases and the families living there. These projects in the Obey amendment represent only the top 16 percent of security needs requested by the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines. This should be the least we should do.”