GOP cut Obama administration's request 4 State Department's Worldwide Security program 2011, 2012 &

[Bill USA]

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... 2013!


Jon Stewart on the Great Benghazi Cover-Up (video) - AmericaBlog
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http://americablog.com/2013/05/jon-stewart-on-the-great-benghazi-cover-up-video.html

[font size="3"]Jon Stewart covers the Republican hearings on Benghazi – nine to date – and how none of them have yet to produce a smoking gun.

....during the Bush administration, there were 54 attacks on diplomatic targets, that killed 13 Americans, yet garnered only 3 hearings on embassy security, and zero outrage on Fox.

[font size="3"]But in response to the Obama administration's last three funding requests for the State Department (including for increased security measures) Republicans cut every one.....[/font]

Dana Milbank - WaPo
(all emphases my own)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-forget-about-big-bird/2012/10/09/5f9a411c-1258-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

[font size="+1"]For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion [font color="red"]for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program[/font] [/font][font size="3"]— well below the $2.15?billion requested by the Obama administration. [/font][font size="+1"]House Republicans cut the administration’s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012.[/font] (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration’s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security” — a charge Republicans rejected.[/font]
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Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan’s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security.[/font]

Secretary Clinton: House Republican budget cuts will endanger national security - 2/14/2011
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday afternoon that the spending levels outlined by House Republicans late last week for the remainder of the fiscal year would endanger the country's national security.

[Thinkingabout]

1. This is one of the first things which should have been looked into.

Don't get up and have hearing after hearing until you have cleaned your own windows. It would have been nice to have good security in all American facilities but this will cost. The House is a waste of money right now, totally dysfunctional and not smart enough to realize it.

[Bill USA]

2. I wish when they were trying to embarass Hillary she would have finished with: "Does this mean you

won't be cutting our next request for the State Department security programs next year????" With a smile on her face.

[Cha]

3. Thank Goodness that Jon Stewart is shining a light on the recons's hypocrisy

and valuble Wasting of everyone's TIME.



thanks for the OP, Bill

[DCKit]

4. We've been saying this for almost a year now. nt