David Obey: “Why do you keep saying we're borrowing money to add to the summer youth program when this bill fully offsets every dime…”

But the truth of the matter is that I think we know better and that it does matter.

The way I see it, we're watching a let's pretend attack on the deficit tonight by singling out these items that cost about a million bucks. If Members are concerned about the deficit, I would ask, why did they vote for two tax cuts…

Over 20 years, David Obey has become one of my dearest friends, my mentor, and, yes, we do conspire to try to do good things. He has shown me the power of this great institution and how it can change people's lives, to make opportunity…

this Congress is broken. This place does not work.