House Backs Block on Military Housing (GOP abandons military needs)

[UpInArms]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=8&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_go_co/military_housing

WASHINGTON - Making a tough choice with U.S. troops still in Iraq (news - web sites), the House on Wednesday sided with the Republican leadership to embrace spending restraint over an expansion of a program to improve military housing.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, underscored the election- year sensitivity of the faceoff on a military spending bill, saying after the vote that lawmakers might reverse their decision in later legislation.

In a near party-line 212-211 procedural vote, lawmakers signaled their willingness to remove a provision expanding the housing program by $500 million from a $10 billion military construction bill for next year.

The language seemed likely to be deleted from the legislation later in the day's debate. The roll call ran 23 minutes beyond the usual 15 minutes as GOP leaders nailed down the votes they needed to prevail.

Without the expansion, the program is expected to exhaust its current $850 million spending limit by November, which supporters said would delay new housing for 50,000 military families.

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Now they act like they're worried about fiscal issues? How about when they gave the millionaires and billionaires some tax cuts? Oh, let's forget being fiscally prudent then :puke:

Maybe they think since the military is dying every day for their nasty freakin' illegal war there won't be a housing shortage.

I hate these guys :puke:

[wicket]

1. Those pieces of shit!!!!!

:grr: :grr: :nuke: :nuke:

[Cobalt Violet]

2. How do they get away with it?

Are repukes really favored in the military? They don't do anything but wave the flag! Unreal.
:wtf:

[alfredo]

3. they must hate America

look at how they punish our soldiers

[libhill]

4. More Repuke "values" at work

They're just showing us how they support the troops. Any individual who can't see through their lies and hypocrisy needs a psychiatric evaluation.

[fdr_hst_fan]

5. I agree, but if you

say anything against the, then YOU'RE the traitor!

[libhill]

6. And this is why

they are so dangerous to our democracy, and why we ABSOLUTELY have to get these pukes out of power. Soon.

[joycep]

7. The Dems have enough stuff like this

to hang these sobs if we will just use it.

[progressivebydesign]

8. You should see the housing the families have to live in!

I drive by it sometimes, near Fort Lewis, Washington. It is so run down and depressing...

How I hope this becomes an issue for Bush and the heartless GOP bastards. How dare they?