Rep. David Obey

Democrat  •  7th District, Wisconsin  •  21st Term  •  Sworn In 1969
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 98%
  • Abstains: 1%

View All (2,350)

03/09/07
Congressman Obey says "Idiot Liberals" need to support war money

House Appropriations Chair David Obey (Dem., Wisc.) ran into woman in the hallway in Washington recently and ended up yelling at her and her friends, ...

Source: Columbus Free Press, OH
03/09/07
Congressman's video blunder shows Democrats split on war

David R. Obey criticizing anti-war Democrats as "idiot liberals" circulated on Capitol Hill yesterday, with Republicans using it as an example of Democrats' ...

Source: Washington Times, DC
03/09/07
Iraq War Exchange Captured on Video

David Obey (D-Wis.) this week to ask why he would vote for a war spending bill and demanded that Congress cut off funding. Obey, who had spent the week ...

Source: Washington Post, DC
03/09/07
Representative David Obey Has More Visitors

Obey grew angry and had harsh words for the woman and liberal groups in general. He said they don't understand that his supplemental bill would end the war ...

Source: WKBT
03/09/07
The EIB Network's Spawned the Liberal Kooks

Obey? David Obey is all upset with this. He's upset that the kooks are protesting Democrats, so he put a video on YouTube and he's “seen pounding his fist ...

Source: RushLimbaugh.com (subscription), CA
03/08/07
Homeland Security tests SuperSnoop system

David R. Obey, D-Wis., to see if it violates privacy laws. Data the system can mine include credit card records, telephone and Internet usage, ...

Source: World Peace Herald
03/08/07
Pig Report Says Lawmakers On A Diet

... moratorium on earmarks announced and enforced by the House and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairmen David Obey, D-Wis., and Robert Byrd, DW.Va. ...

Source: Town Hall
03/08/07
Homeland Security revives supersnoop

David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The investigation focuses on whether the program violates privacy laws ...

Source: Washington Times, DC
03/08/07
Protesters pressuring Minnesota, Wisconsin lawmakers

In Wisconsin, organizers have been arrested for refusing to leave the office of Congressman David Obey (OH'-bee), a Democrat who chairs the House ...

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription)
03/08/07
House Dems want troops out by fall '08

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an “orderly and responsible close” to American participation in ...

Source: Detroit Free Press, MI
03/08/07
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to American participation in ...

Source: Examiner.com
03/08/07
David Swanson: The War Money Can Be Stopped

10:25 Now Obey is talking about shifting the war from Iraq to Afghanistan where we can attack "the people who attacked us." (The people of Afghanistan? ...

Source: Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand
03/08/07
Protests target state's lawmakers

David Obey, a Democrat who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The protesters have focused their attention on Obey and on Democratic Sen. ...

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI
03/08/07
US Democrats Call for Iraq Pullout By Fall 2008

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (Democrat, Wisconsin) said the proposal would bring an "orderly and responsible close" to US ...

Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
03/08/07
Democrats Propose Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008

Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the leadership’s proposal “will essentially redirect ...

Source: New York Times, NY
03/08/07
Senior Democrats Unveil Iraq Pullout Plan

A senior House Democrat, David Obey, said the plan will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to American participation in Iraq's "civil war". ...

Source: Buzzle, CA
03/08/07
Democrats Seek Withdrawal of Troops From Iraq in 2008 (Update1)

... who attacked us and who are giving al-Qaeda sanctuary,'' Representative David Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, told reporters. ...

Source: Bloomberg
03/08/07
Democrats launch new Iraq withdrawal effort

Congressman David Obey , who chairs the appropriations committee, says the move will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to US involvement in what he ...

Source: WLOS, NC
03/08/07
Democrats launch new Iraq withdrawal effort

Congressman David Obey, who chairs the appropriations committee, says the move will bring an "orderly and responsible close“ to US involvement in what he ...

Source: Tampa Bay's 10, FL
03/08/07
Democrats Launch New Iraq Troop Withdrawl Effort

Congressman David Obey, D-Wisconsin, who chairs the appropriations committee, said the move will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to US involvement ...

Source: News10.net, CA
03/08/07
Democrats launch new Iraq withdrawal effort

Congressman David Obey, who chairs the appropriations committee, says the move will bring an “orderly and responsible close'' to US involvement in what he ...

Source: News 8 Austin, TX
03/08/07
House Dems Ready for Showdown on Iraq

... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, House Appropriations chairman David Obey, ...

Source: ABC News
03/08/07
Obey unveils plan tying funding to Iraq withdrawal

David Obey, D-Wausau, unveiled plans today for tying continued funding for the Iraq war to a timeline for the "orderly and responsible'' withdrawal of US ...

Source: Appleton Post Crescent, WI
03/08/07
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout By Fall 2008

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an ``orderly and responsible close'' to American participation in ...

Source: Guardian Unlimited, UK
03/08/07
House Dems unveil plan for US troop pullout from Iraq by fall '08

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an ''orderly and responsible close'' to American participation in ...

Source: Bridgewater Courier News, NJ
03/08/07
Democrats pushing for Iraq timetable legislation

Congressman David Obey, who chairs the appropriations committee, says the move will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to US involvement in what he ...

Source: WBIR-TV, TN
03/08/07
Democrats propose Iraq pullout by late 2008

Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the leadership's proposal "will essentially redirect ...

Source: International Herald Tribune, France
03/08/07
Democrats propose Iraq pullout by late 2008

Representative David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the leadership's proposal "will essentially redirect more of our resources ...

Source: International Herald Tribune, France
03/08/07
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008

The Democratic plan, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to American participation in ...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, CA
03/08/07
House Dems demand timeline for withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey says the proposal will bring an "orderly and responsible close" to the American participation in Iraq's "civil ...

Source: USA Today

Official website: http://obey.house.gov/HoR/WI07/Home.htm
Address:
2314 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3365

Person's Views

  • Today: 15
  • Past Seven Days: 97
  • All-Time: 9,515

42.5%

Average Rating

26%

Avg. from State

Login to Rate
Write This Representative
You are writing Rep. David Obey [D, WI-7].
Track with MyOC

Top-Rated Comments

OpenCongress is a free and open-source joint project of two non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.