BooshThreatening To Veto Homeless Veterans Bill

[jefferson_dem]

Bush Threatening To Veto Homeless Veterans Bill

WASHINGTON — The House approved a homeless veterans housing bill overwhelmingly Wednesday, even though White House advisers warned they'd urge President Bush to veto it.

The bill sponsored by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, authorizes spending $200 million on housing and services for veterans, requires 20,000 rental vouchers a year for low-income housing for veterans and authorizes $1 million for grants to nonprofit groups to provide housing and services for veterans.

The bill, which passed 412-9, also creates a job in the Department of Housing and Urban Development for someone to coordinate with Veterans Affairs on homelessness and make regular reports to Congress on the issue.

The Senate version of the bill is sponsored by Democrat Barack Obama, the Illinois lawmaker who is the party's presumptive presidential nominee.

Bush's advisers said in a statement they oppose a wage provision in the bill that requires builders of veterans housing to pay employees prevailing wage. The advisers said that provision is the bill's major problem. Bush has long opposed any changes to the law that would either increase or decrease the number of employers subject to the prevailing wage requirements in the Davis-Bacon Act, the advisers said.

"For this reason, if the bill were presented to the president in its current form, his senior advisers would recommend he veto the bill," the White House said, adding that the bill also duplicates existing programs.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/09/bush-threatening-to-veto_n_111790.html

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Perfect...

It's the Republican way.
Fuck you Homeless Vets - thanks for your service, now get lost.

[rpannier]

2. God forbid employees get prevaling wages

That might prevent employers from getting prevailing profits

It just disgusts me

[Pushed To The Left]

3. 412-9 is pretty bi-partisan. And Bush is still going to veto helping homeless veterans.

I guess "Support the Troops" only means supporting them going to war and not when they come back. :mad: