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If this war is important enough to engage in the long term, it's important enough to pay for
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A shipping group, the Lake Carriers Association, is turning to Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) and other Great Lakes Democrats to help them block or convince EPA to back away from its proposed rule.
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The problem is that you can have the best policy in the world, but if you don't have the tools to implement it, it isn't worth a beanbag. And I don't think we have the tools in the Pakistani government and I don't think we have the tools in the Afghan government. And until we do, I think much of what we...
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Americans expect to get better when they go to the hospital, not worse ... Unfortunately, every year, thousands of Americans die from illness they contract after they enter the hospital. Thanks to Chairman David Obey's leadership, the Recovery Act includes critical resources that will help fight these i...
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My point and our point is simply that, in this war, we have not had any sense of shared sacrifice. The only people being asked to sacrifice are military families
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On the merits, I think it's a mistake to deepen our involvement ... But if we are going to do that, then at least we ought to pay for it. Because if we don't, if we don't pay for it, then the cost of the Afghan war will wipe out every other initiative that we have to try to rebuild our own economy.
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The only people who’ve paid any price for our military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan are our military families ... We believe that if this war is to be fought, it’s only fair that everyone share the burden.
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If we don’t address the cost of this war
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we will continue shoving billions of dollars in taxes off on future generations and will devour money that could be used
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We've been told for a year that we need to pay for every dollar that it's going to cost us to reform our health care system. That's about $900 billion over 10 years. If we wind up being committed in Afghanistan for eight to 10 years, that's also going to approach $800 billion to $900 billion
