Another GOP Plan To Screw Veterans
With all of Bush’s moaning and groaning about Congress not sending him the appropriations bill, you would think the republicans in Congress would encourage Bush not to veto the bill which has veterans affairs in it. The GOP continues to show its true colors in their neglect for veterans. Remember they do support the troops. It’s not shocking to the system that Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson is leading the pack of GOP wolves on their slash and burn venture.
Republicans plan to raise a point of order to strike the language on $65 billion bill funding Veterans Affairs and military construction. Bravo turn your backs on the Veterans because two bills have been combined; Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education departments and Veterans Affairs. The GOP is truly the party of thugs.
- Senate Republicans said Thursday they would invoke new ethics rules to block Democratic efforts to send to President Bush the first appropriations package of the 110th Congress.
- Bush and congressional Republicans are protesting Democratic efforts to tie the two measures together, arguing that the majority is holding veterans’ money hostage for an incremental increase in domestic policy programs.
- “It will be up to Republicans in the Senate whether they want to turn [their] back on our veterans right before Veterans Day,” said Patty Murray of Washington, a member of Senate Democratic leadership who sits on the Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs subcommittee.
- “Where does this process take us except to delay getting vital needed funds to our veterans?” said Rep. Roger Wicker (Miss.), ranking Republican on the corresponding House subcommittee.
- Under the new ethics law, which was enacted in September, sustaining a point of order would strike the offending language, in this case the Veterans Affairs measure. The bill without the offending language would then be sent back to the House for reconsideration. Before the law, sustaining the point of order under Senate Rule 28 would essentially kill the bill.
- House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) warned that if Senate Republicans sustain a point of order to split the bill, they would be held responsible for holding up funding for veterans and military personnel.
So the GOP thinks that Veteran Affairs is offensive language. I hope the troops hear them load and clear.
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