Obey Seeks Public Financing Debate

By Steve Kornacki
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Jan. 26, 2006, 12 a.m.

For the record, Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) doesn’t have anything nice to say about Jack Abramoff: “He’s a leech and a parasite on the system, and for the life of me I don’t even know what he delivered for anyone.”

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Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article