29 Quotes by David Obey

FEMA still does not know any more about what it was doing last week than it was a month ago, ... an incompetent agency.

The services provided to patients are so much broader in scope than in the past, all of that costs more money and I believe that it all has value.

This bill is replete with gimmicks. It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.

This bill is replete with gimmicks, ... It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.

This bill does nothing whatsoever to stop the fleecing of the taxpayer by listing earmarks on tax bills.

They get rid of the symbol but still keep the pork.

They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people.

It makes no sense to tell the country and the profession that we will make the investment to pass it, and then turn around and not fund it.

Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets.