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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Fri May 18, 2012, 08:01 PM May 2012

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 nation’s 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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Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/54141096-68/defense-president-military-obama.html.csp

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House OKs $642 billion defense bill (Original Post) Eugene May 2012 OP
Miserable hypocrites... bhikkhu May 2012 #1
I Pray to Hookah that Dems take the house back. n/t Grassy Knoll May 2012 #2
Somebody needs to make a comedy Politicalboi May 2012 #3

bhikkhu

(10,708 posts)
1. Miserable hypocrites...
Fri May 18, 2012, 08:08 PM
May 2012

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.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. Somebody needs to make a comedy
Fri May 18, 2012, 08:33 PM
May 2012

Movie this summer that makes fun of the GOP and the people that vote for them.

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