Dave McSweeney will push for Spending Freeze
Jeff Berkowitz: …Two of the economic issues …that you say differentiate you from Cong. Melissa Bean [D- Barrington] [are] tax cuts…and …tort reform. Are there others…?
Dave McSweeney: Absolutely… We need to control federal spending… I favor a three year freeze on the total level of federal spending. But, we need to exclude from that freeze Social Security, National Defense [and] Homeland Security…
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Berkowitz: What about the Brady bill? Do you support that? Background checks before people can buy guns?
McSweeney: I don’t support the Brady bill because I think instant checks are a lot better [show concludes].
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Dave McSweeney, a likely candidate to run in the 8th Cong. Dist. March, 2006 Republican Primary for the right to take on the incumbent, Cong. Melissa Bean [D- Barrington], is featured tonight on “Public Affairs,” at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 through-out the City of Chicago.
Cong. Jan Schakowsky [D- Evanston, 9th Cong. Dist.] is featured this week in the suburbs on “Public Affairs. [Additional program details to follow].
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington] is a likely candidate in the March, 2006 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary. McSweeney, who ran in the Republican Primary in March, 1998 against then 8th Cong. Dist. Republican incumbent, Phil Crane, debates and discusses with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz tonight, on the City of Chicago edition of “Public Affairs, Tax cuts, a spending freeze, tort reform, the Iraq War, abortion, gun control and other domestic and foreign policy issues.
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A partial transcript of the McSweeney show is included, at the link titled “Dave McSweeney said Cong. Bean weak on Taxes and Jobs,” located to the right of this blog entry or at the bottom of this blog. An additional partial transcript of the show is included directly, below.
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Jeff Berkowitz: …two of the economic issues that we have been talking about that you say differentiate you from Cong. Melissa Bean [are] tax cuts…and …tort reform. Are there others on the economic side?
Dave McSweeney: Absolutely. Spending. We need to control federal spending. The deficits are way too large…I favor a three year freeze on the total level of federal spending. But, we need to exclude from that freeze Social Security, National Defense [and] Homeland Security as three important components. We need to prioritize spending—
Berkowitz: How much is left of the total budget once you make those three exceptions: Homeland Security, National Defense and—
McSweeney: Social Security.
Berkowitz: Social Security, once you do that how much are you left to limit?
McSweeney: Sure, let’s go throught the numbers. The federal budget is about 2.3 trillion. National Defense is about 450 [billion] and then you throw Homeland Security and Social Security into the mix and you probably have a billion between those three components. So, you are dealing with a still, relatively substantial part of the budget.
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Berkowitz: Things are going well, would you say, in Iraq?
McSweeney: 72% turnout, as of this morning [Jan. 30, Election Day in Iraq]. It is an historic day.
Berkowitz: So you support the President—you think it was the right decision, you think the United States conducted the right policy in Iraq and you think it will turn out well?
McSweeney: No. 1, it was the right decision. Saddam Hussein had an active chemical and biological development program. He definitely had ties with Al Qaeda. He was a security threat in the future and we are now in an historic phase where we are bringing about democracy in the middle east. Not everything was perfect. There were some implementation issues that—
Berkowitz: But no Weapons of Mass Destruction [were found], does that bother you? Was that the main motive for going into this—
McSweeney: No, the main motive is—and even the U. N. report — now we are finding out that the money that the UN was raising, the Oil for Food Program, was used to bribe some of the Iraqi officials and all of the reports [that] have come out have said he [Saddam] had a very active program in development and was ready to put it—
Berkowitz: So, no qualms. We are going to continue to speak as the credits roll, but I very much want to thank Dave McSweeny--
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Jeff Berkowitz: … Would you say that [Cong.] Melissa Bean supported the President in Iraq.
Dave McSweeney: It’s early. She hasn’t taken many clear stands.
Berkowitz: So, it’s not too clear-- is what you are saying.
McSweeney: That’s exactly right.
Berkowitz: She [Cong. Bean] certainly was opposed to the Energy bill. Would you have supported the Energy bill.
McSweeney: I would support the Energy bill.
Berkowitz: What about ANWR, drilling in ANWR?
McSweeney: Yes absolutely, we need self sufficiency in this country.
Berkowitz: Social Issues, are you Pro-Life?
McSweeney: Yes I am Pro-Life.
Berkowitz: Would you say [you are] anti-gun control?
McSweeney: I certainly oppose gun control. It doesn’t make any sense to disarm the honest citizens.
Berkowitz: What about the Brady bill? Do you support that? Background checks before people can buy guns?
McSweeney: I don’t support the Brady bill because I think instant checks are a lot better [show concludes].
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], recorded on January 30, 2005 and as is airing tonight, Feb. 21, on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Host and Producer of Public Affairs and an Executive Recruiter doing Legal Search, can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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Dave McSweeney: Absolutely… We need to control federal spending… I favor a three year freeze on the total level of federal spending. But, we need to exclude from that freeze Social Security, National Defense [and] Homeland Security…
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Berkowitz: What about the Brady bill? Do you support that? Background checks before people can buy guns?
McSweeney: I don’t support the Brady bill because I think instant checks are a lot better [show concludes].
*****************************
Dave McSweeney, a likely candidate to run in the 8th Cong. Dist. March, 2006 Republican Primary for the right to take on the incumbent, Cong. Melissa Bean [D- Barrington], is featured tonight on “Public Affairs,” at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 through-out the City of Chicago.
Cong. Jan Schakowsky [D- Evanston, 9th Cong. Dist.] is featured this week in the suburbs on “Public Affairs. [Additional program details to follow].
*********************************
Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington] is a likely candidate in the March, 2006 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary. McSweeney, who ran in the Republican Primary in March, 1998 against then 8th Cong. Dist. Republican incumbent, Phil Crane, debates and discusses with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz tonight, on the City of Chicago edition of “Public Affairs, Tax cuts, a spending freeze, tort reform, the Iraq War, abortion, gun control and other domestic and foreign policy issues.
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A partial transcript of the McSweeney show is included, at the link titled “Dave McSweeney said Cong. Bean weak on Taxes and Jobs,” located to the right of this blog entry or at the bottom of this blog. An additional partial transcript of the show is included directly, below.
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Jeff Berkowitz: …two of the economic issues that we have been talking about that you say differentiate you from Cong. Melissa Bean [are] tax cuts…and …tort reform. Are there others on the economic side?
Dave McSweeney: Absolutely. Spending. We need to control federal spending. The deficits are way too large…I favor a three year freeze on the total level of federal spending. But, we need to exclude from that freeze Social Security, National Defense [and] Homeland Security as three important components. We need to prioritize spending—
Berkowitz: How much is left of the total budget once you make those three exceptions: Homeland Security, National Defense and—
McSweeney: Social Security.
Berkowitz: Social Security, once you do that how much are you left to limit?
McSweeney: Sure, let’s go throught the numbers. The federal budget is about 2.3 trillion. National Defense is about 450 [billion] and then you throw Homeland Security and Social Security into the mix and you probably have a billion between those three components. So, you are dealing with a still, relatively substantial part of the budget.
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Berkowitz: Things are going well, would you say, in Iraq?
McSweeney: 72% turnout, as of this morning [Jan. 30, Election Day in Iraq]. It is an historic day.
Berkowitz: So you support the President—you think it was the right decision, you think the United States conducted the right policy in Iraq and you think it will turn out well?
McSweeney: No. 1, it was the right decision. Saddam Hussein had an active chemical and biological development program. He definitely had ties with Al Qaeda. He was a security threat in the future and we are now in an historic phase where we are bringing about democracy in the middle east. Not everything was perfect. There were some implementation issues that—
Berkowitz: But no Weapons of Mass Destruction [were found], does that bother you? Was that the main motive for going into this—
McSweeney: No, the main motive is—and even the U. N. report — now we are finding out that the money that the UN was raising, the Oil for Food Program, was used to bribe some of the Iraqi officials and all of the reports [that] have come out have said he [Saddam] had a very active program in development and was ready to put it—
Berkowitz: So, no qualms. We are going to continue to speak as the credits roll, but I very much want to thank Dave McSweeny--
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Jeff Berkowitz: … Would you say that [Cong.] Melissa Bean supported the President in Iraq.
Dave McSweeney: It’s early. She hasn’t taken many clear stands.
Berkowitz: So, it’s not too clear-- is what you are saying.
McSweeney: That’s exactly right.
Berkowitz: She [Cong. Bean] certainly was opposed to the Energy bill. Would you have supported the Energy bill.
McSweeney: I would support the Energy bill.
Berkowitz: What about ANWR, drilling in ANWR?
McSweeney: Yes absolutely, we need self sufficiency in this country.
Berkowitz: Social Issues, are you Pro-Life?
McSweeney: Yes I am Pro-Life.
Berkowitz: Would you say [you are] anti-gun control?
McSweeney: I certainly oppose gun control. It doesn’t make any sense to disarm the honest citizens.
Berkowitz: What about the Brady bill? Do you support that? Background checks before people can buy guns?
McSweeney: I don’t support the Brady bill because I think instant checks are a lot better [show concludes].
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], recorded on January 30, 2005 and as is airing tonight, Feb. 21, on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV].
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Jeff Berkowitz, Host and Producer of Public Affairs and an Executive Recruiter doing Legal Search, can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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