WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, made the flowing statement today in response to the President’s veto threat on the bipartisan measure to extend the successful Children’s Healthcare Insurance Program that is being considered by Congress.
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“The same President who wants to borrow $50 billion to give another round of tax cuts to folks who make over a million bucks a year, the same President who wants to spend another $150 billion on Iraq, is saying now that we can’t afford to invest less than one fifth that amount to provide decent health care for ten million American kids.
“If there’s anyone in America who has a more warped sense of budget priorities than the President and his White House team – all of whom have first rate health care – I’d like to know who it is.”
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