NBC and the AP are both reporting the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, David Obey (D-WI) will retire this year.
May 5
2010
Why Republicans Can’t Lead #100,291
From The Nation: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans. Obey and other advocates for the spending argued, correctly, that a pandemic […]