[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. |
appreciated that a Christian would speak out. |
By the administration's own estimates, the new Homeland Security Department would employ at least 160,000 people, |
every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' money is being spent by an agency which has been demonstrated under these circumstances to be incompetent. |
FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency. |
I am particularly concerned about [the presence] of asbestos. |
I think this goes far broader than public broadcasting. I think across the board there is an effort by Republican ideologues to force institutions across society to bend to their will. You see it in [House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay's raising hell with the courts and demanding they pursue his brand of justice. . . . You see it in this action here. |
I wouldn't mind wagering there will be, at best, a tiny dribble of sales. |
I'm concerned that the American public is rapidly being given the impression that this is the bill for the war. It's not. It's the down payment for the bill for the war. and (by) that I mean you ain't seen nothing yet in terms of the costs that are going to be coming at us. |
Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets. |
It is a moral imperative that we adopt that amendment on the defense bill. Otherwise the $21 million in this bill for victims of torture is a joke and a sham. |
It's more than a little late. |
Recent news reports suggesting that the CPB increasingly is making personnel and funding decisions on the basis of political ideology are extremely troubling. |