David Obey: “So let me be explicit. Does that mean that there is no change whatsoever from the decision made in the conference when…”

The most powerful voice in those meetings, and this is what we did in Mr. Davis' district as well, is the voice of the community.

To hear the gentleman talk, you would think that this bill is being gobbled up by a huge number of earmarks, causing the deficit to explode. The gentleman used a chart. I've got a chart too. This bar represents the total spending in this…

this Congress is broken. This place does not work.

I think to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed greater rights than we give an American man or woman who serves in the military is wrong.