Obey Predicts Late December Finish

Approps Train Wreck Awaits

• By Steven T. Dennis and John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 6, 2007, Midnight

It’s starting to look like this year’s appropriations train wreck won’t have a happy ending any time soon, with House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) pointing to sleigh bells in our future and no thaw in the frosty relations between top Democrats and the White House.