face but in reality would take us back to the good old days of bush tax cuts for the rich and misguided iraq war. not someone who's idea of a fresh idea is to say, "let the market to do with." which translated means, "let the corporate elite, big banks and big shots of wall street and insurance company ceo's do anything they damn well please without regulation to protect investors and consumers." there is nothing fresh about that. what the district in the country deserves is for someone to step up who can be counted on to put working people first, someone who will bring fresh eyes and fresh energy to the battle, someone who will not use salac words and actors' ability to hide the fact that he is willing to god and privatize social security and medicare and abandon working people to the arbitrary power of america's corporate and economic elite. when i first ran for congress, wanted to do three things -- the first was to help make our economic system more fair for the poor and for the middle- class working families of this country. unfortunately, a powerful economic and political forces have l

but what in reality take us back to the good old days of bush tax cuts for the rich and and a misguided iraq war. not someone whose idea of a fresh idea is to say, "what the market do it," which translated means, "let the corporate elites, big banks, and wall street big shots and insurance company ceo's do anything they damn well pleased with no regulation to protect investors and consumers." there is nothing fresh about that. no, what the seventh district could the -- deserves and what the country deserves is for someone to step up and be counted on to put working people first, someone who will bring fresh eyes and fresh energy to the battle, someone who will not use slick words and an actors' ability to hide the fact that he is willing to gut and privatize social security and medicare and abandon working people to the arbitrary power of america's corporate and economic elite. . my second goal was to expand federal support for education in order to expand opportunity for every american. that has been a hard slog, but, especially in the last three years, we have been able to move a large amo

face but who in reality will take us back to the good old days of bush tax cuts for the rich and misguided iraqr. not somebody who's idea of a fresh idea is the same. let the markets do it which translated means let the corporate elites, big banks and wall street big shots and insurance company ceo's do anything they dam well please -- damn well pleased with no interest to protect investors and consumers. there is nothing fresh about that. no district -- what the country deserves is for somebody to step up and be counted on to put working people first, somebody who will bring fresh eyes and fresh energy to the battle. if somebody who will not use slick words and an actors' ability to hide the fact that he is willing to got and privatize social security and medicare and abandon working people to the arbitrary power of america's corporate and economic elites. when i first ran, i wanted to do three things. i wanted to make our economic system more pair of bridget more fair for the poor and for the working class families of this country. unfortunately, powerful economic and political forces have la

, but who would in reality take us back to the good old days of bush tax cuts of the rich and misguided iraq war, not someone whose idea of a fresh idea is to say, let the markets do it, which translated, means, let the corporate elites, big banks and corporate big shots and insurance company c.e.o.'s doing anything they damn well please with no regulations to protect investors and consumers. there's nothing fresh about that. no, what the country deserves is for someone to step up to be counted on to put working people first, someone who will bring fresh eyes and fresh energy to the battle, someone who won't use slick words and an actor's ability to hide the fact that he is willing to gut and privatize social security and medicare and abandon working people to the arbitrary power to america's working elite. when i first ran, i wanted to do three things, make our economic system more fair for the poor and middle-class working families of this country. unfortunately, powerful economic and political forces have largely frustrated that effort. over the last 30 years, we have seen the largest tra

iraq. we are pursuing a misguided strategy and a tremendous cost to the american people. the loss of one moreamerican serviceman or woman is simply too high a cost for -- serviceman or woman is simply too high a cost. an astonishing half billion dollars is included in this bill for an alternate engine for the joint strike fighter. in 1996, the department of defense conducted a competition to choose the engine for this plane. the engine meets the program requirements and is perfectly adequate. unfortunately a major defense contractor decided that by -- a major defense contractor that by 2012 will have 90% of the military engine industrial base, lost the competition and doesn't want to take no for the answer and has been lobbying hard to keep a program for the second engine funded. the bush administration opposed the funding for this engine, the obama administration opposes it and secretary gates has said that the funding for the extra engine will be detrimental to the overall joint strike fighter program. if congress decides to ignore those in the defense department and th