House Minority Whip Roy Blunt Issues Scathing Statement About Failure to Pass Veterans' Legislation in Time for Holiday
Democrats Inspire Another "Blunt Statement"
In October, National Commander of the 2.7 million-member American Legion Marty Conatser suggested in a news release that "Senator Reid personally assured me that the MilCon-VA appropriations bill would be passed by Veterans Day."
House Republican leaders point out that they sent Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter over a month ago in which they urged her to appoint conferees to complete work on the veterans' and military construction appropriations bill by Veterans' Day. The Speaker never responded.
"When the House first took up and overwhelmingly passed the veterans' appropriations bill 146 days ago, none of us could've anticipated we'd be standing here today...Democrats have used seemingly every measure concerning our Armed Forces as an opportunity to induce surrender in Iraq and pass billions of dollars in unrelated pork-barrel spending...But even with all that, many of us thought they'd treat the veterans' funding bill differently. This is, after all, a piece of legislation that honors and serves the men and women who have done so much to protect the country...But thanks to Democrats in Congress, we won't be honoring them with the spending bill they deserve. And the reason? The politics of the moment won out over the needs and priorities of our men and women in uniform," Blunt stated.
Blunt has not been pleased of late with his majority counterparts.
Yesterday, the minority Whip had issued another scathing remark to the Democrats for their plan to today introduce drafted legislation for continuing the funding of the military in Iraq to be tied in directly to a deadline for troop withdrawal of no later than December of 2008.
Citing it as the 58th attempt at introducing politically-motivated legislation concerning the Iraq war, Blunt decried what he characterized as lack of any care for the importance of achieving a decisive victory, and the previous failure of such a bill even before the latest advances and successes had been achieved in the war.
And on Wednesday, Blunt had attacked the decision by Democrats to strip $3 billion in border security financing from the Defense Appropriations bill.
On Tuesday, the White House issued a veto statement concerning the Veterans' Affairs budget in which it said "Funding for the nation's veterans should not be held hostage while Congress attempts to add billions in unrelated spending."
The veto was promised because the Democrats had added $10 billion more in discretionary spending to the bill than the Republicans had requested. The Republicans insist that the extra money is unnecessary.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentAnne..newsflash - Jeff=veteran. Jeff's dad=disabled vet. I was at the VA yesterday, thank you. And I can see differences. Things they routinely did for my dad 6 years ago they now want a co-pay for. They aren't as likely to treat him as long in hospital as they used to. The Repub Congress and pres attacked the VA system for years, while at the same time being militaristic and making sure more wounded go into the system that they were underfunding....
Preach it, Sista Anne!
Brant,The Democrats have always been slow or absent in taking care of the obligations that they have to veterans. Jeff can call it propaganda if he wants to, but I am thinking that if he were a veteran, he might have a different point of view. You have to realize that the things that he advocates are ALWAYS, in some way those things that will bring him some sort of personal gain ie, socialized medicine. Criticizing anything that the Democrats do is going to make Jeff mad. Criticism is reserved for Christians, conservatives, and business leaders. But then you know that don't you.
I'll say it again...if you are going to write such slanted right wing propaganda, don't try to call it news....unless, perhaps, you are hoping for a career as a Fox News writer..