Tomlinson's resignation should be used to bring people together, not divide them as he and the administration have done, |
We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to, |
We have had to drag this administration kicking and screaming to get additional funding for border security. If he is finally serious about securing our borders I say 'Welcome sir, it's taken you long enough, |
We have had to drag this administration kicking and screaming to get additional funding for border security. If he is finally serious about securing our borders I say 'Welcome sir, it's taken you long enough,' |
We will be able to pass the smaller bills, such as the Ag bill, the Treasury-Post Office bill, the military construction bill, this bill and a few others. Come September, guess what! Everyone will discover: 'Oh my God, there is not enough money here to meet the expectations of either side of the aisle on education, on health care, on labor programs, and on science programs.' |
we will have lost an important safety net for Wisconsin's dairy farmers. |
We're going to see the rest of it on the installment plan, |
What that, in essence, says is that you're not going to worry about the biggest disasters that could occur, you're only going to worry about the smaller ones, |
What we should be doing in this amendment is to provide every single dollar that we need to conduct the operation now going on in Kosovo. We should not provide one dime less and neither should we try to use this to play games with the budget. |
would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities. |
Yet because the administration has not consulted the agencies it is moving around, the proposal risks creating huge new redundancies and unnecessarily expanding the size of government at a huge cost to taxpayers. |
You've got the votes. Let's pass this turkey, get it on to the president, let him veto it, let's clear the air and then let's really sit down and do business, |
[In a subcommittee hearing Thursday, Rep. David Obey, D-Wisconsin, warned White House budget director Mitch Daniels:] No information, no money. ... severe attitude problem. |
[Obey is unbowed.] I think if you asked God, he'd say the Ten Commandments were a road map for living, ... Instead, you have these self-appointed pharisees who think the Ten Commandments can be turned into a stiletto to use against their political opponents. |
[Obey struggles to balance the demands of his faith with the obligations of pluralism -- and for this, he receives few rewards. Recently, he offered an amendment to increase funding for child care, job training and domestic abuse programs as a way of] taking some of the pressure off women to have abortions. ... whose concern for life ends at the checkbook's edge. |