David Obey

I am urging every Member to vote ``no'' on the rule as a protest against the Rules Committee action in refusing to allow a minimum-wage increase amendment to be attached to this bill. I know that there are some people that say it shouldn't…

Every time we turn around, there's more money and even more money going into the war in Iraq that people didn't know about. He basically says what the president and the administration need to do is level with the American people.

Oh, I think the White House and the Pentagon, the civilian leadership of the Pentagon have done every possible thing in order to conceal those numbers.

I want Congress to finally know what the costs are going to be. I want Congress to not have anymore surprises on this package.

in the end, there are only three essential powers that make the Congress the greatest legislative body in the history of the world. The first is the power to investigate; the second is the power to declare war; and the third is the power…

I am going to take back my time. I was prepared to entertain a serious question. That is not a serious question. I am not interested in what happened 200 years ago. I am interested in what is happening today and tomorrow.

I would simply say that is useful, but I am still concerned about the fact that we will be allowing a very high- technology aircraft to wind up in the hands of people who may be allies today, but God knows what they are going to be…

if I can borrow this Republican mike, I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson- Lee).

this event is a sad day in the history of the House and the country. The fact that this bill is before us today indicates that the President's aim is about as faulty as the Vice- President's. The fact is that on 9/11 we were attacked by al…

This House thought of it yesterday that we wouldn't do anything about them, didn't they? This House denied the funds for fixing that problem yesterday, didn't they?

some of the things that happen in this place are enough to give hypocrisy a bad name. Example: I got a letter just 3 days ago from about 30 Republican Members of the House demanding that we add funding back for the Corporation For Public…

I understand you are saying it is in a different pocket, but the overall account is being cut, right?

Last year, I said virtually everything that my good friend is now saying today. The problem is that in the last year they have jailed their main opponents, they have beaten up people who are defending an independent judiciary, they have…

I thank the gentleman. We were just told this amendment goes too far. The fact is the State Department made phone calls to a number of people here yesterday indicating they would be willing to support this amendment. The only difference…

I thank the gentleman. Someone on the other side just said ``What will the headline be tomorrow?''; that it will be that there is a slap in the face of the government. That is the point. That is the point. Our long-term security is tied…

my views on this bill are well known, as well as the provisions in it. I think the report speaks for itself.

let me simply explain that the Lowey motion to recommit will be with instructions to report it back forthwith to the House with an amendment adding an additional $750 million for State and local formula-based grants and high-threat…

I withdraw my reservation with the notation to Members it would be helpful if they would get here to the floor so we can dispose of as many amendments tonight as possible so that we have as few amendments as possible left when we return…

I want to renew my comments on something that is likely to happen here later with respect to the dairy program; but before I do that, in the unlikely event that anybody in any of the congressional offices is listening, I hope they…

let me say that I think in general, within the spectacularly inadequate allocation provided the subcommittee, that Mr. Hobson and Mr. Visclosky have done a very credible job on this bill, and I especially appreciate the way Mr. Hobson has…

if this point of order is upheld, does that mean that the House would be placing a higher value on the ideological accounting contained in the budget resolution than they would be on meeting the critical military needs of the country? The…

I thank the gentleman, but I think I have said enough. I just would hope that this House would reconsider what they have done this week and use this incident to recognize that that budget resolution is simply insufficient to meet the needs…

Doesn't this whole thing illustrate that there are some people here who are much more concerned about the technical niceties of the procedures of this House than they are on the human implications of what it is we do here? The CHAIRMAN…

as I indicated earlier in the debate, 2 days ago, the Republican majority passed a budget resolution which imposed a stringent ceiling on total appropriations for the year. The effect of that was to squeeze more than $1 billion of badly…

this morning, I am not even going to talk about the fact that on this side of the aisle we feel that this bill is short by at least $1.8 billion in providing the kind of health and medical care that we think ought to be provided for our…