Alter Budget to Meet Military Needs
Because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, units in the United States are suffering from acute readiness shortages, often forced to prepare and train for deployment without all assigned personnel and
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Because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, units in the United States are suffering from acute readiness shortages, often forced to prepare and train for deployment without all assigned personnel and
How much do you think they should take on? MULLEN: Well, I think they need to take on as much as they can. I dont have a figure in that regard.
The full bill, without the war funding language, will now head to the Senate.
The post-9/11 GI bill, they argue, should be paid for with offsetting cuts in other government programs.
[IMGCAP(1)]Initially, I assumed (without a lot of thought, actually) that Greg Davis would win narrowly. I imagined that if he lost, the major reason would be the mood of the electorate.
In a 20-page memo distributed to Members, Davis wrote that without a meaningful change of course, Republicans stand to lose another 20 House seats and up to six Senate seats.
And, this isnt the first time hes lobbied for the bill without expressly stating his lobbying interests.
Hmm, maybe Fossella should borrow that line. Coleman’s Ladylike Locks. HOH just can’t get enough old photos of Sen. Norm Coleman.
But like the first round of the special election, the two candidates’ names will appear on the ballot today without their party affiliations — a decided advantage for Childers.
That would be one of the things that we could do in the next two weeks that should have immediate impact at the pump by Memorial Day, said the Republican Whip.
Last year, Democrats forced through an alternative minimum tax relief package without offsets over the objections of Blue Dogs, and this year, they passed a massive bipartisan stimulus package without
“Based upon these specific grounds, the Committee has determined that it should not further exercise its jurisdiction over this matter at this time,” the letter states.
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“Perhaps this sort of embarrassing situation is precisely why Democrats are breaking their promises in order to jam legislation through the House without proper debate this week.”
The commission has essentially been out of business since the beginning of the year because a standoff over the FEC nominations has left the panel without a quorum.
a government [in Colombia] that has been the strongest ally of the Bush administration in the region, has made enormous sacrifices in the fight against narco-trafficking and has aligned itself — not without
“It does make physicians look like they’re sort of saying ‘no’ to the ocean coming in on the beach, but the reality is that you just can’t place all of those punitive things on them without providing
“We should at least have a birth announcement.” Pelosi defended adding the funding without offsets given that the war itself has not been offset.
President Bush is seeking to put such an agreement into place without Congressional approval, which Hoyer said is not “appropriate” and that lawmakers should expect to “see something about that.”
Gingrich wrote in a missive posted online that the loss in Louisiana on Saturday should serve as a “wake up call” for Republicans.