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House Democrats, who are trying to pass a long-stalled war funding bill this week, have attached $10 billion to help local school districts avoid teacher layoffs when schools reopen.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/...ss_war_fundingA $23 billion, debt-financed plan has been scrapped over deficit concerns, but has been replaced with a $10 billion "education jobs fund" financed by multiple cuts from prior spending bills, including last year's stimulus bill.
There's also more than $500 million in new money to hire more border patrol agents and pay for other security initiatives along the U.S.-Mexico border — though $200 million in previously appropriated money for a border fence, popular with Republicans, would be rescinded.
And there's $18 billion in new Energy Department loan guarantees, to be evenly split between nuclear and renewable energy projects.
Part of the delay has been over finding offsetting budget cuts to finance the teacher jobs initiative. The sometimes combative Obey has been wrestling with the White House budget office over the cuts.
The package unveiled Tuesday includes unspent defense funds, as well as money cut from community development and rural Internet projects.
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Scandalous.
Down with the Unions!
Repugs also voted down money to help homeless vets.
Do those ers even know it's an election year?
Maybe if congress would make bills that stand by their own merit...
When you slide in bad spending into a bill that will otherwise pass, you can expect it to be voted down, or attempted to be stalled.
If these add on's have merit, let them be voted on with their own bill number. Not as an amendment to something unrelated.
where have you been? This happens all of the time..
No Sherlock.
Ever know a conservative that actually agrees with the process?
I don't think I know any conservatives, if that's your criterion. Everybody in Washington has played ball as long as I've been alive.
what better time to stop. instead of complaining when your team is out of office. Stop putting domestic spending in military budgets. stop with the 2000+ page bills that even lawyers have to hire people to read to understand what is in the bill.
^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^
Any playing by such rules doesn't mean they agree. You play the hand you have under the given rules. Republicans get this same criticism from me. I simply think we need a clean sweep in both houses, with people who truly want to do what is cons utionally right.
That's all I want. And world peace. And this thermos.
"I simply think we need a clean sweep in both houses, with people who truly want to do what is cons utionally right."
more bleating from his ivory tower in cloud cuckoo land
....in stark contrast to the "slapping of es"you deliver from truthout.borg land?
yin and yang I suppose.
Probably a good cancellation at play.
because since you serve the country you get a handout?
that is right donkeys think the tax payer should pay for people for not using their heads! and save their money for hard times
why did the vets not waste their money earlier in the life!
they get plenty of beneifs as vets
1000s of homeless vets, now men AND women, are a great recruiting tool, showing how military service/training can lead to a great career, to say nothing of the TBI and PTSD, badly unacknowledged and undertreated, screwing up 100s of 1000s of vets' lives and families.
Americans LOVE their military, cheap lip service, just don't want to pay of them when they're injured.
Anyone have a percentage of homeless vets out of veterans, vs. homeless non-vets from the non-vet population?
I haven't looked, but I have a gut feeling that the percentage of not vets who are homeless is greater.
Anyone care to search for such data?
I'll try to find something. I'm actually thinking it would be the other way around....
not much benefits except for the gi bill. that is until w. still i agree one hundred percent. people, no matter what, should not be treated as victims.
Maybe so. I just think it will be as I stated. Either way, shouldn't we know the numbers before we follow the hype?
Republicans lost their right to about add-ons when they attached anti-online-gambling legislation to a Homeland Security bill. any Republican who complains about this.
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How childish.
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