Posted on 11/12/2007 1:31:31 PM PST by yorkie
The Defense Appropriations bill that passed Congress on Nov. 8 did not include a popular amendment to provide $3 billion for border security that included funds for fencing, unmanned aerial vehicles and ground sensors.
The border security amendment, sponsored by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) was approved by the Senate in a 95-1 vote on Oct. 3. When House and Senate leaders negotiated the final terms of the bill in recent weeks, they removed the border security provision and its funding. The defense fiscal 2008 spending bill passed the House, 400-15, and the Senate, in a voice vote, on Nov. 8.
Sen. Graham said last week he was disappointed by the stripping of the border security funds from the final bill.
The amendment that I offered, supported by all my colleagues here, passed 95-1. Only in Washington would that be a mixed signal, Graham said at a Nov. 7 press conference.
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Someday you find out that just like in the unions, that not all hispanics, just like the rank and file in the union agrees with the leadership.
Ronald Reagan, understood this.
Take a lesson from him.
Oh sure. Easy for YOU to say! WHERE in Southern CA am I to find wild game that's EDIBLE? ;)
Now where and when did I EVER say that all hispanics are like the *_____* of most illegals?
I have not.
I have two families near & dear to me who will vouch for that.
Sheesh.
It was signed into LAW! Get it done!
I'm making a big pan of brownies, and I'm going to eat them all.
Oh sure. Easy for YOU to say! WHERE in Southern CA am I to find wild game that’s EDIBLE? ;)
Well then, move to Montana like a sensible Gramma!
I’m TRYING!!!!!!!! He Who Lives Here.....well, ya want his phone #???
:)
If you put frosting on them, I’ll come & help you eat them.
I’ll even bring the milk!
THAT apparently doesn't matter anymore.
Up is down, down is up...
Ok, I’ll add that to my drink too.
>They just refuse to do the will of the people.<
People? Oh, you mean the sheeple who keep voting them back into office?
Incidentally, unless we get back to voting in the voting booth, leaving a paper trail, with the counting done by bi-partisan hand counting, we will never get these buffoons out of office.
Computers can be and are manipulated regularly!
Soon you’ll have your piece of the Big Sky.
It was signed into LAW! Get it done!
“THAT apparently doesn’t matter anymore.
Up is down, down is up...”
Conservatives need to do better research, and throw the RINOs out in the primaries.
>>So Lindseed Grahanesty got the memo we sent him?! Or more probably, sabotaged his own proposal (done all the time on Capitol Hill).<<
I’m missing something - were there objections here to the amendment? I would think even Freepers who prefer a more boots on the ground approach than the high tech amendment would still not want the border security funding killed.
Graham, wink..wink to my buddies, I’ll propose it to cover my ass but don’t you dare pass it!!
That's why waisting any futher time on this election is worthless. There is no constitution anymore. The judges do what they want and we sit and allow it. The chickified male won't attack a female. You all are afraid to say a word that Jessie HIGHJackson has made a crime to say. You vote theses same criminals back in each election. When the troops come for ya you will be like the people in the USSR & go w/o a fight. The Communist Manifesto has taken over here. Just turn the lights out when they come for you.
Is there any other way? Pecans or walnuts?
Neither do I and these clowns in D.C. aren’t going to cause me to.
We cannot give up on the cards and letters, emails and faxes to blast these clowns back into reality. We the people are the bosses. We the people have spoken. There is something really wrong when the boss tells the employee what he/she wants, and the employee flips off the boss.
No question in my mind that we need to flush the Congressional bowl...pull the chain at least three consecutive election cycles. Make each candidate for any office fill out a pledge of allegiance to the Constitution, thus to the people, and sign at the bottom before he/she can wear the “R” on their lapel.
Something along those lines. Make D.C. “Representative Government” again with respect and knowledge of whom the boss is, as it was designed to be.
Digger, that is exactly why this election is so important. I'll be standing, will you?
I’m doing my best for DH......oh please, trust me...
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