David Obey: “Can you name one or can't you? The fact is there's not a single piece of Member pork in this bill. You ought to know.”

I would point out that more than half of all disaster relief since 1993 has gone to just four States: Louisiana, Florida, California--the gentleman's home State--and Mississippi; and 80 percent of all disaster relief since 1993 has gone to…

You don't get a second chance to educate kids. We should not fool ourselves into thinking that this package will do as much as we ought to be doing to ease the squeeze on the national economy. We will have partially offset with this bill…

The most powerful voice in those meetings, and this is what we did in Mr. Davis' district as well, is the voice of the community.

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?