Betty McCollum actually said...

This legislation can only be described as a stalking horse for an excessively expensive mega-bridge.

this is a total waste of taxpayer dollars, and an example of Congressional pork, and it should be eliminated.

the path that our Tea Party Republican colleagues are taking on the fiscal year 2011 budget with ideology, mean-spirited, or just plain dumb...

this budget proposes only a $78 billion reduction in defense spending, which is nothing more than a rounding error.