Republicans nix anti-war profiteering measure in committee

[La_Serpiente]

They left out the provisions in the Senate bill that put in place anti-profiteering penalties.

Oh my God, but are they fricking out of their minds? HELLO DIPSHITS!!!

Democrats should be making this an issue today.

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House Nixes Anti-Profiteering Penalties in Iraq Spending Bill

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The final version of the $87 billion spending bill for Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) is missing provisions the Senate had passed to penalize war profiteers who defraud American taxpayers. House negotiators on the package refused to accept the Senate provisions.


The Senate provision was authored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). It was one of the last major sticking points this week as negotiators worked through the compromise appropriations bill. The conferees narrowly defeated the amendment after lengthy debate, with House negotiators offering no substitute and no willingness to compromise, despite repeated offers from Senate conferees to negotiate the language. Republican and Democratic Senate conferees consistently supported the provision, which had been unanimously accepted during Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the bill. Leahy, Feinstein and Durbin are members of the Appropriations Committee and also of the Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), which has jurisdiction over the criminal justice system.


"Congress is about to send billions and billions of dollars to a place where there is no functioning government, under a plan with too little accountability and too few financial controls," said Leahy. "That's a formula for mischief. We need strong disincentives for those who would defraud taxpayers, and removing this protection is another major blot on this bill."

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Anti-Profiteering Measures Nixed from Final Bill for the 87 Billion

[dusty64]

1. Wow, how surprising.

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[pansypoo53219]

2. why?

they think they have a right to rape and pillage.

[gratuitous]

3. The perfect murder on the provision

Nobody's fingerprints will be on it. There's no quote from anyone in the Yahoo article against the provision making profiteering a crime, so how can this provision die? Gee, it just did. Nobody knows who's responsible for it; it just happened.

Kobe!

[salin]

4. TIme to revive the 1980s pentagon spending scandals

and start pushing any all stories of gouging (ala Haliburton on oil delivery in Iraq).