David Obey: “I would simply say to those Members on the other side of the aisle, if you do not like the process that produced this…”

“I would simply say to those Members on the other side of the aisle, if you do not like the process that produced this bill, I would simply point out that your party runs this place. It was your party that set the schedule that provided more days off than we were in session in the past year so that the Committee on Appropriations could not finish its work. It is your party that could not pass a budget for the first time since 1974. It is your party that allowed its own caucus to be governed by the CATs, the conservative Members of your caucus, that decided that you wanted to produce partisan bills rather than bipartisan bills and, as a result of that, wound up with legislation that could not pass this House and legislation that your Republican friends in the Senate would not even buy. If you do not like the length, if you do not like the weight, if you do not like the height of this bill, I would suggest that you simply look in the mirror, because your party and the way it ran this House produced it. With respect to the supplemental, I would simply note the President, bad as it is, the President asked for $14 billion in the supplemental. This bill now contains 20.8 in the supplemental. And all but about half a billion dollars was added at the insistence of your leadership, not ours.”