Honorable David Obey
United States Representative, Wisconsin, Democrat
Representative Obey, of the Seventh District of Wisconsin, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1969. He served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1962 to 1969. He chairs the Appropriations Committee. The following is from the December 16, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act. We have heard three times at least now our friends on the minority side indicate that only 12 percent of the original stimulus funding has, quote, left the Treasury. That’s a very slippery way to put it, because the fact is that what “left the Treasury”…
