In Virginia a large segment of our population works for the Department of Defense, either as a civilian employee, serving in a branch of the Armed Forces, or working for a Defense contractor. Much of Virginia’s economy depends on the Department of Defense budget. Our Virginia Senators don’t seem to care.[read_more]
Both voted against Defense Appropriations bill HR 2685. Senate Democrats are holding hostage the Defense bill until Republicans agree to end sequestration so the Democrats can expand spending on other programs.
The Senate voted 50-45 to cut off debate on the bill so they could proceed with a vote to authorize the Defense Appropriations bill. But a majority vote is no longer good enough in the Senate, to pass in the Senate a bill must have a ‘super majority’. Referring to the sequestration caps that are preventing the Democrats from expanding other government programs Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said,
“We cannot and we should not fix part of our government and not the other part, we have until this fiscal year ends in the fall to work this out. And that’s what we should do.”
Senator Roy Blount (R-MO) responded,
“To hold defense hostage … because somehow we’ve discovered that no matter what the worldwide situation is we need equity in spending, is outrageous.”
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Thats meth’d up!!
“Senate Democrats are holding hostage the Defense bill until Republicans agree to end sequestration so the Democrats can expand spending on other programs”. WHAT!!???
Has no no been paying attention to what is going on in this new Republican Congressional majority. They smashed the sequestration process with Speaker Boehner’s 1,603 page Omnibus spending bill months ago with Paul Ryan’s open contrivance, they have been surreptitiously circumventing its spending restriction’s on a regular legislative basis ever since not to mention that the earmark moratorium has not only failed to eliminate earmarks, but also made the process patently less transparent, as there are no names of legislators, no list or chart of earmarks, and limited information on where and why the money will be spent in today’s Republican pork attachments. If anything transparency and accountability have regressed immeasurably under this new majority. Wagging a finger at either Senators Kane or Warner is condemning the petty pick pocket while ignoring your buddies the serving Republican members looting the voters bank vaults. This would be kind of funny if it weren’t so damn pitiful and I constantly read comments from individuals questioning how these tax and spend Republicans keep being returned to office, perhaps its because like Obama’s Bush excuse its easier to blame a Democrat then look to your own house. This is an example of how partisan politics becomes self defeating.
Kaine and Warner want to starve the children of US soldiers deployed overseas and to weaken our national defense!!!!
(how is my Alinsky?)
The D’s are all morons……
Wendy, Democrats can be surprisingly intelligent, sometimes. It is just that goals you and I seek for our nation — security, prosperity, tranquility — are not theirs. They are after equality of result, racial and class hatred, and the importing of new voters who seek benefits and will vote Democrat. It might be a mistake to underestimate them.
I don’t underestimate them at all. They’ve accomplished the greatest con on the American people, along with the fraud in the White House. The Kennedy democrats are intelligent, it’s the liberal mind set in the most intelligent person that is moronic. They just don’t get that what they create has consequences….votes matter but so does the outcome of the policy they vote in. We’re in a mess and it doesn’t matter how smart anyone is, we need to change the course of the country and get back to the basics outlined in our Founding Fathers wisdom.
The importation of voters was greatly allowed by Bush, yes Bush and his laws circumnavigating Republicans.
It is true that Dems want Illegal aliens to vote or become citizens and then vote.
Yet no one says how or where they work.
They are exploited by Va. Republicans and then we taxpayers are subsidizing Republican labor.
It is true that some profiteering Republicans use this labor to get contracts.
We have to look no further than Lynchburg ,Va.
There are many self proclaimed Christian Conservatives in the area.
Their bumper stickers read ” Not I But Christ ” , Christ did not write that check to the illegal alien / unlicensed contractor , you did.
Come to Lynchburg see for yourself , request all violations from DOLI 2010 to present.
Cross reference those with DPOR and District Court search VA. , all counties.
Good job Newman , Byron , Garrett , Hurt , and House Judiciary Chairman Goodlatte.
You cohesively came together to turn a blind eye to illegal commerce in your districts.
I wonder if that University on the hill can have their law students see for themselves, I doubt it.
It is taking a Union Lobbyist to have the ” Moral Fortitude ” tackle the illegal labor in Lynchburg Va while these Republicans sit on their idly on their hands { complicit }.