Bill Delahunt: “I have to say that my colleague is wrong, my dear friend from Philadelphia. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office…”

“I have to say that my colleague is wrong, my dear friend from Philadelphia. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, predicts the deficit for the next fiscal year will be $480 billion, $480 billion. And in the course of the past several years, just this past year, 1.4 million Americans fell below the poverty line. And my colleague is speaking tonight in terms of just simply for the reconstruction of Iraq, rebuilding Iraq, if you will, $20 billion a year for 5 years.”