David Obey News

They're known as "monuments to me," airports, bridges and courthouses named after the lawmakers who secured the federal funds to build them.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington -- The Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center, a job-training facility in one of Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods, is threatened with receiving no federal money at a time of high unemployment -- simply because of its name.

There's an old adage in Washington that Congress actually has three parties: Democrats, Republicans and appropriators.

One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.

U.S. Rep. Don Young and his anti-Big Government message will seek a 20th term in the office.

Rep. Maxine Waters is trying to rally colleagues to her side in her fight with Appropriations Chairman David Obey over an earmark request - a scrap that turned physical on the House floor Thursday night.

Advocates of pay parity are asking the House Appropriations Committee to give civilian federal workers the 3.4 percent annual pay raise a separate panel approved for the military as part of the fiscal 2010 Defense authorization bill.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Dave Obey's long-running dispute with a powerful California congresswoman over federal funding for special projects erupted this week on the House floor.

Congress is packing up to leave town for more than a week, but that may not be enough time for two House members to forget, let alone forgive.

Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation - and according to one a physical one - on the floor of the House on Thursday night over an appropriations earmark one was seeking.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Norm Dicks, the House Democrat in charge of spending for the environment, is proposing a dramatic increase in funding for a water-cleanup program in Washington state that's run by his son.

Let us sing the praises of - but not build a monument to - U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin. McCaul has taken as his cause something you'd like as your cause.

To paraphrase a wise friend: When dolloping out the metaphors nothing is "like" the Holocaust and no one is "like" Hitler.

Editor: On April 16, 2009, during an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, Congressman Dave Obey expressed support for a new federal policy to ensure sufficient, timely and predictable funding for veterans health care through advance appropriations.

Trying to take political advantage of the Iranian protests, Rep. David Dreier declared that there was "more freedom" in Iran than in the U.S. Congress, after House ended debate last night: " I wonder if there isn't more freedom on the streets of Tehran right now than we are seeing here ," ripped Rep.

Lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday passed a 106 billion dollar emergency bill to finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shore up efforts to fight swine flu, and fund US participation in the IMF.

Woe is Rep. Maxine Waters. How could David Obey do such a thing? From Roll Call : A plan by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey to ban a oemonuments to mea in this yeara s appropriations bills has been sharply criticized behind closed doors by a senior Democrat who wants to direct $1 million to an employment center in her district bearing her ...

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has seen about a fifth of his wealth disappear over the past year, according to his latest personal financial disclosure report.

U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold have gotten seriously engaged in the effort to address the fundamental flaws in the Obama administration's plan to "rescue" Chrysler and General Motors.

Homeland security legislation that would extend a federal initiative to keep undocumented immigrants out of American jobs passed a key committee Friday, but only after Democrats shot down a measure offered by Inland Rep.