David Obey: “Mr. Speaker, the only delay that this vote has anything to do with is Tom DeLay. That is the only delay. We offered on…”

“Mr. Speaker, the only delay that this vote has anything to do with is Tom DeLay. That is the only delay. We offered on this side of the aisle last week to take this bill up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday if they would do one simple thing, remove the gag on this House so that we can fully debate the most important domestic security issue that we have faced in at least 2 decades. We have been attacked in what is in essence a second Pearl Harbor. The war abroad appears to be going quite well so far. The problem is we are going after the snake and we are trying to kill it, and they are going to try to retaliate; and they are going to try to retaliate at home as well as abroad, and we have huge, huge security risks, some of which are classified and cannot even be mentioned on this floor. But there are many of them that we can talk about today. All we are asking is to give the President the authority to spend additional money, $7 billion or so.”