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"House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) engaged in a late afternoon shouting match on the House floor after Obey reportedly rebuffed Waters on a $1 million earmark request, aides and witnesses said.
Witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that Waters pushed or shoved Obey.
The pair were seen shouting at each other and had to be separated by members -- who were gathered on the floor casting final votes before heading off to a party at the White House.
Waters, according a Democratic staffer familiar with the situation, approached Obey to ask him to fund one of her longstanding earmarks, the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.
Obey -- who irked Waters a few weeks back by banning "Monuments to me" funding projects named after the politicians that earmark them -- told her no, emphatically enough to be heard across the chamber.
"I'm not going to approve that earmark!" Obey shouted."
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I can just imagine that conversation.
Obey-" We just approved trillions of dollars of gratuitous spending...We must hold STANDARDS! Anything named after YOU doesn’t meet our bullshiite requirements"!
Waters-"You old bastigate mutha<bleep>..<POW>.
Didn't that senile hag punch a policeman last year already when he did not genuflect as she tried to strong-arm her way through security?
Such a peaceful leftist.:doh
Witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that Waters pushed or shoved Obey.
The pair were seen shouting at each other and had to be separated by members -- who were gathered on the floor casting final votes before heading off to a party at the White House.
Waters, according a Democratic staffer familiar with the situation, approached Obey to ask him to fund one of her longstanding earmarks, the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.
Obey -- who irked Waters a few weeks back by banning "Monuments to me" funding projects named after the politicians that earmark them -- told her no, emphatically enough to be heard across the chamber.
"I'm not going to approve that earmark!" Obey shouted."
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I can just imagine that conversation.
Obey-" We just approved trillions of dollars of gratuitous spending...We must hold STANDARDS! Anything named after YOU doesn’t meet our bullshiite requirements"!
Waters-"You old bastigate mutha<bleep>..<POW>.
Didn't that senile hag punch a policeman last year already when he did not genuflect as she tried to strong-arm her way through security?
Such a peaceful leftist.:doh