House passes $636B defense bill

[The Straight Story]

House passes $636B defense bill


WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. House passed a $636 billion defense spending bill that also would extend jobless benefits and healthcare for out-of-work Americans another few months.

The vote was 395-34 Wednesday.

The Pentagon bill for fiscal 2010 also included several temporary extensions of current laws due to expire at the end of the year, including the Patriot Act designed to make it easier for the U.S. government to fight terrorism.

The bill also would provide a 3.4 percent military pay increase but did not include funding to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as President Obama called for early this month. The price tag was estimated to be about $30 billion.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/16/House-passes-636B-defense-bill/UPI-73821260996759/

[rucky]

1. As long as it's deficit neutral

:rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. How my rep (D) votes decides how I vote.

He's a sometimes liberal. I'll be watching to see how he voted on funding a lost war. And, cast my vote accordingly. Even if I have to write a progressive's name in.

[Mari333]

3. prick waving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY


no money for health care, of course.

[anigbrowl]

4. WTF...does anyone bother to READ any more?

First sentence of the article:

"The U.S. House passed a $636 billion defense spending bill that also would extend jobless benefits and healthcare for out-of-work Americans another few months."

Fuck. No wonder politics is so fucked up, when so many people don't bother to read past the headline.

[Mari333]

5. they could have extended the benefits and healthcare

minus the defense bill.

thats how they get their wars on..adding clauses onto the original legislation.

[The Straight Story]

6. Have to agree with you there - I wonder why they didn't?? (nt)

[anigbrowl]

8. This was a way to guarantee passage

if you look at defense bills in recent years, they are full of non-defense stuff because it's easier to tack on an amendment to a bill which is guaranteed to pass than it is to introduce legislation on its own. It's a stupid system, I don't like it, but that's the way things get done. Meanwhile, my point stands: you plainly didn't bother to read before posting.

[Arctic Dave]

7. And the military still cries like room full of babies because they don't have enough to equip people

All those fuckers deserve is a glass of warm piss.