Senate Republicans Betray U.S. Vets By Blocking Veterans Benefits Bill

[babylonsister]

No words.


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/27/senate-republicans-betray-u-s-vets-blocking-veterans-benefits-bill.html


Senate Republicans Betray U.S. Vets By Blocking Veterans Benefits Bill
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, February, 27th, 2014, 5:06 pm


In a shameful display of partisan obstruction, the Mitch McConnell led Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have improved veterans benefits.

Senate Republicans blocked the veterans bill by using a procedural maneuver to invoke the 60 vote rule. The final vote to waive the budget point of order failed, 56-41. Only two Republicans (Sen. Dean Heller and Sen. Jerry Moran) joined with Democrats on the vote.

Republicans claimed that they blocked the bill because Majority Leader Harry Reid would not allow an up or down vote on an amendment that would have attached sanctions on Iran to the bill.

Sen. Reid said, “I hope all the veterans groups have witnessed all the contortions the Republicans have done to defeat this bill. Shame on Republicans for bringing base politics into a bill to help veterans.”

The chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders, said,

I had hoped that at least on this issue – the need to protect and defend our veterans and their families – we could rise above the day-to-day rancor and party politics that we see here in Congress

I am going to keep fighting. I am proud that we received every Democratic vote and that two Republicans also voted with us. In the coming weeks, I will be working hard to secure three additional Republican votes, and I think we can do that.

The cost of war does not end once the last shots are fired, and the last battles are fought. When members of the military lose arms, legs and eyesight fighting in wars that Congress authorized, we have a moral obligation to make sure that those Americans receive all of the benefits that they have earned and deserve. When American soldiers die in combat, we have a moral obligation to make sure that the spouses and children they leave behind are taken care of and do not live in abject poverty.

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The Republican Party doesn’t care about veterans. This vote stabbed veterans in the back, and should make every vet question why they would ever vote Republican.

[Thinkingabout]

1. We should keep this in the forefront. The GOP which is complaining about the military cutting back

damn sure do not appreciate the sacrifices our military has made, with their lives, their service, the losses to their families. They play games to "get their way" and throw our military under the bus. Some of the GOP with guts should stand up and tell the gutless you are not going to play games with our military and their families. The same gutless like Cheney bitching about the military cut backs and gutless to blame some of this on the sequestration. Just gutless.

[babylonsister]

3. I'll find a good FB meme; they're being made. Spread the word! nt

[toddwv]

5. Good luck with that.

Corporations control the news. They ain't going to run this into the ground like they would if the Democrats had done this.

[chillfactor]

2. and hopefully....when the veterans cast their votes....

they will remember this betrayal by the republicans....

[sheshe2]

4. Kick and Hell yes Recommend!

The Repukes have to go!!!!!!

[indepat]

6. Pissing on veterans, the old, the frail, the sick, and the poor is perhaps what 'pukes

do best: to wit, pissing on any semblance of the concept of the compassionate conservative.

[libodem]

7. Yertle

Is a super dick. Hope he loses his election bid. I hope someone makes a campaign ad to address his lack of principles. If it were a vote to send these veterans out for 10 back to back tours of duty, you know he'd vote yes on that. What an ass.

[RGinNJ]

8. This Vet has and will always vote for the Democratic Party.

[rhett o rick]

9. How bad do things have to get before Harry nucs the filibuster?? nm

[Rex]

10. ...

I hate Republicans.

[lpbk2713]

11. Anyone who votes republican should be ashamed.

I'm bookmarking this for when the Primaries begin.