Nita Lowey: “If my good friend from Georgia would yield, I think we can go back, you and I are on the Committee on Appropriations and…”

“If my good friend from Georgia would yield, I think we can go back, you and I are on the Committee on Appropriations and we can talk about the $7 billion increase in the military budget that the Pentagon did not ask for. We could talk about the cut in afterschool jobs and heating assistance for the elderly. Let us talk about where we are today. It seems to me from all accounts, from personal accounts and talking to my colleagues, from reading the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and Democrats and Republicans both, I do not know that we all respect it but we certainly read it, the President is very engaged in the process, as my good colleague from New Jersey said.”