David Obey: “The point of the letter is to cover their tails over there. That is the point of the letter.”

Thank God finally there will be a cease-fire for the moment on the yap-yapping and the talk-talking while the Congress actually takes some action to restore unemployment benefits for nearly 85,000 people in my State and over 22 million…

this Congress is broken. This place does not work.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 162, noes 260, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 433] AYES--162…

Why do you keep saying we're borrowing money to add to the summer youth program when this bill fully offsets every dime that we're spending on it?