David Obey

let me simply say that this amendment simply restores funding to the NEA that my amendment originally placed in the bill last week, funding that was just stricken by the Republican point of order. Of course this amendment should be…

I simply want to say that I agree with the gentlewoman's observations, and that is one of the reasons that I think Members ought to vote against this bill. Again, it is not because of anything that has been done by the subcommittee, but…

I would like to say that as much as I would like to support this bill, I cannot, for a number of reasons. First of all, the Committee on Rules, in the action of this House yesterday, made in order a totally illegitimate amendment to this…

with all due respect, under ordinary circumstances I would agree with that, but we have gone on this bill for most of the day. We still have another bill tonight. Many Members are going to be home. We are still going to be here dealing…

Mr. Chairman, I share the disdain of the gentleman from North Carolina for the scurrilous press release, the totally misleading press release which was issued last night by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Everyone knows…

I would simply again urge Members to make the situation and to make the facts as opposed to the propaganda perfectly clear, that we vote against the Hefner amendment.

I simply want to say, this reminds me of an event that occurred a number of years ago when we were asked by the Reagan administration to vote for the IMF increase on this side of the aisle; and when we did, the Republican Congressional…

If the language in the bill is allowed to remain, hard-working public servants will be unable to choose health insurance which covers legal, doctor-recommended abortions which are necessary to preserve a woman's health. If this amendment…

I simply would ask the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) who just spoke, I am happy to hear he loves this institution. My question is, does he love it enough to tell the chairman of his campaign committee that he ought to quit issuing…

Let me simply say that this rule should be defeated for a number of reasons. First of all because it adds, against the opposition of the committee that is supposed to handle the bill, it adds a 300-page nongermane housing authorization…

Mr. Chairman, our job as Members of Congress is, first of all, to define differences and then to try to find resolution to those differentials. There are a number of items in the appropriation bills which are always subject to being…

many of us remember a few years back when significant reductions were made in committee staffing, which saved a significant amount of money in the House budget. In a very controversial decision, the House majority leadership took about $8…

let us talk about who is being partisan. The fact is that when there was a vote in the committee to take this money out, 16 Republicans correctly voted against it, a majority. We are simply asking that we stick to that position on this…

several days ago I introduced House Resolution 473, which will provide for the consideration of the remnants of H.R. 3580, a supplemental appropriation bill funding the International Monetary Fund. Madam Speaker, I would urge all Members…

sometimes Members of the minority have to take time to spell out what the majority is doing, because it appears that the thought police in the majority caucus prevent many people on the majority side from expressing what it is that they…

I think it is an incredibly ill-advised action to provide these ships to Turkey and Greece, given what is happening in the Aegean. I think it sends exactly the wrong signal to both sides.

the compact acts as a tariff barrier because processors have to pay the higher price to any farmer, whether that farmer lives in the New England region or not. That means if a Minnesota farmer or Wisconsin farmer can produce the product…

then it seems to me that that market ought to at least be a real market. Despite everything that has been said here today, no one can tell me yet why it is fair, why it is in the tradition of equal treatment under the law, for the law to…

I do not disagree with a single thing that the gentleman has said. I would simply make the point that despite his best intentions, and mine, we are now operating under a set of laws which in essence, as far as trade is concerned, is a…

let me simply put that chart in context. That chart represents as far as the Secretary is allowed to go under the law in simplifying milk marketing orders. What we wanted to do in our region legislatively, and we were denied that…

Let me simply ask the gentleman, outside of the fact that his State has 31 Members in this House and our State has 9, is there any other reason why his farmers should be required by law to receive $2 for every 100 pounds of fluid milk, $2…

In 1938, the Congress passed legislation which established a series of milk marketing orders which, in essence, had the government setting prices for fluid milk based on where that milk was manufactured in the country. That made sense in…

I have known Bill since the first day he walked into this institution, and I have never seen a day when he did not bring honor to this House by his service. He has, as our chairman has already indicated, a wonderful sense of humor. He has…

As far as the gentleman from California (Mr. Fazio) is concerned, I can think of no more decent person who has ever served in this institution. He is not only a person of immense graciousness personally, but he is a person who is willing…

this is really an incredible process that we are going through here this morning. When the majority party took control of the House, they said they would do things differently, and they sure have. If we take a look at what has happened…