David Obey: “this bill, or the bill which will be debated under this rule, will spend $92 billion of the taxpayers' money. The…”

“this bill, or the bill which will be debated under this rule, will spend $92 billion of the taxpayers' money. The largest portion of it will be to fund the continuing war in Iraq. It is here because of the most spectacular military blunder committed by any President of the United States in this country's history. We went to war on the basis of bad information, and we are now mired in that war because of the spectacular incompetence and stubbornness of the Secretary of Defense. We are also going to be asked to fund additional payments to meet the aftermath of the Katrina hurricane, which is another spectacular example of the incompetent management of government by this administration. {time} 1045 I am going to vote against the previous question on the rule because, while some 48 amendments have been noticed to the committee for consideration over the next 2 days, this House has still apparently not found a way to enable us to consider two other amendments. The first is the one mentioned by the gentlewoman from New York. We feel it is an obligation of this Congress to begin to conduct decent oversight on both the expenditures in Iraq and the expenditures in Katrina. This Congress has a miserable record on oversight. My colleague in the Senate, Mr. Feingold, introduced a resolution censuring the President for various actions that he has taken outside of the law. I believe that the Congress itself deserves censure for not meeting its oversight responsibilities.…”