House OKs $642 billion defense bill
Source: Associated Press
By DONNA CASSATA | The Associated Press
First Published 6 hours ago Updated 36 minutes ago
Washington Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House approved a $642 billion defense budget Friday that breaks a deficit-cutting deal with President Barack Obama and restricts his authority in an election-year challenge to the Democratic commander in chief.
The House voted 299-120 for the fiscal 2013 spending blueprint that authorizes money for weapons, aircraft, ships and the war in Afghanistan $8 billion more than Obama and congressional Republicans agreed to last summer in the clamor for fiscal austerity.
Insisting they are stronger on defense than the president, Republicans crafted a bill that calls for construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast that the military opposes, bars reductions in the nations nuclear arsenal and reaffirms the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens captured on American soil.
The divisive GOP provisions will have a short shelf life, as the Democratic-controlled Senate is likely to scrap many of them and stick to the spending level in the deficit-cutting agreement.
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bhikkhu
(10,708 posts)They talk about spending like democrats are the problem, then they demand more spending than even the pentagon wants, on useless pork that nobody wants outside of a certain congressional district or two. pffft.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Movie this summer that makes fun of the GOP and the people that vote for them.