David Obey: “so I intend to vote with the administration, but I intend to ask other members of my party to watch the board. If we…”

“so I intend to vote with the administration, but I intend to ask other members of my party to watch the board. If we have Republican votes go up there along with ours, then fine, I think we have an obligation to do our duty and support the administration in this request; but if we see a significant number of the President's own party running in the other direction, then my message to people on this side of the aisle is you do not owe the President of the United States any more support than people of his own party. So tonight, let us find out if we are real. Let us deal with each other on a real basis. I have no reason to think that that will not be the case, and I do think we have an obligation, on both sides of the aisle, to listen to what the administration says when it says this will get in the way of the peace process. But I have one message to the Saudi embassy: get your act together because there are very few people on this House floor who believe your words because of the weakness and the duplicity of your past actions. So this is a case, in my view, where we have to vote with our minds and not our spleens; and with that, I thank the House for the courtesy of the extra 2 minutes.”