Rep. DeFazio on the President's Veto vs. the President's Iraq Request

Moments before President Bush vetoed the expansion of children's health care this morning, Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) spoke on the floor about the veto and the contrast with the President's request for nearly $200 billion more for the war in Iraq:

Rep. DeFazio: "After running up more debt than the 42 presidents who preceded him, $3.2 trillion borrowed and spent, $9 trillion total debt on the backs of the American people, presiding over doubling of our international debt to more than $2.2 trillion, last week he proposed that we should borrow and spend another $190 billion in the war in Iraq. Nearly $600 [billion] since he launched this unnecessary war. Subsidies to big oil, scandals about no-bid contracts -- the president has rediscovered his long lost inner fiscally conservative self. He's going to cast the first veto of his presidency on a bill that would spend money. After an orgy of borrowing, spending, and misspending on many dubious things. His target?  10 million low-income kids. The president stands on principle... Or is it he's standing on a pile of campaign cash contributed by the insurance industry to the Republicans?"