David Obey: “I guess that means that he feels we should not have passed the Nation's student loan programs which we would not have…”

“I guess that means that he feels we should not have passed the Nation's student loan programs which we would not have had without a Democratic Congress. I guess that means he feels we should not have Pell grants that helped the kids from working families go to college and technical school. I guess that means he feels that we ought to repeal handicapped educational legislation. I guess that means he feels we ought to repeal Head Start that is the main program that we provide so that kids who are having trouble learning to read and deal with mathematics get a decent start in the early grades on that. The gentleman may think that that is screwing up America. I think it is creating opportunity for every working family in America. On this side of the aisle, we make absolutely no apology in being for that kind of spending. In contrast, in the last 3 years, this Congress has added $20 billion to the President's defense budget but $17 billion of the $20 billion has gone for pork rather than readiness.”