John Murtha: “Nobody has worked harder than Bill Young, his wife and myself in taking care of these troops at all the hospitals, all…”

The Iraqi leaders are not stepping up to unit and rebuild the country.

I think that is a perfect example of the way things work. When we see something that we think is not as valuable as something else is, we change it.

You can see the hearings we've had on this issue. We felt that the missile defense cuts we made were because of schedule more than anything else, and I appreciate your determination to put it in. We'll take another look at conference, but…

Let me mention to the gentleman, we have a $459 billion bill. We look at every one. We ask the Members to vet them. Our staff vets them. We go over every single earmark. We don't apologize for them because we think the Members know as much…