Ohio 2006 Senate Debate: on Homeland Security

Mike DeWine: Brown voted 10 times to cut intelligence spending

BROWN: You know better than making charges like that, that are just unsubstantiated.

DEWINE: The roll call was there.

BROWN: I ultimately voted every time for those intelligence budgets. And he knows that.

DEWINE: The majority of times of those 10 times where Sherrod Brown voted to cut our intelligence spending, he was the minority even of his own party.

Mike DeWine: I don’t have confidence in Rumsfeld

DeWINE: I’ve already said I don’t have confidence in Rumsfeld.He’s made major mistakes in this war. There’s absolutely no doubt about it. The decision to put Rumsfeld in was made by the president, and that’s his decision to keep. I was not elected president of the United States, the president was. That’s why we have elections.

Q: Would you urge the president to replace him?

DeWINE: By saying I don’t have confidence, it makes it pretty clear what I think.

Q: That you’re urging the president?

DeWINE: I don’t think that he’s done a good job.

Q: Who would you put in there?

DeWINE: I’m not going to the point of specula

Sherrod Brown: Voted every time in favor of final intelligence budgets

BROWN: You know better than making charges like that, that are just unsubstantiated.

DEWINE: The roll call was there.

BROWN: I ultimately voted every time for those intelligence budgets. And he knows that.

DEWINE: The majority of times of those 10 times where Sherrod Brown voted to cut our intelligence spending, he was the minority even of his own party.