Obey Asks For Budget Support

From the Capitol Insider put out by the Disability Policy Collaboration:

The House Appropriations Chairman, Congressman David Obey (D-WI), met with human services advocates to enlist support for the House appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education [which includes Social Security]. Telling advocates “Eleven years of neglect can’t be undone in one year,” Obey said that compromises in the bill were made in order to try to get the bipartisan votes to pass the bill and override a potential Presidential veto. He asked that the human services community support the bill “as-is,” recognizing that while increased funding is proposed for hundreds of programs, many programs will still not even be restored to their FY 2004 funding levels.