Posted on 07/23/2010 7:17:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
WASHINGTON -- In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan.
Instead, the Senate returned to the House a measure limited chiefly to war funding, foreign aid, medical care for Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange, and replenishing almost empty disaster aid accounts.
The moves repel a long-shot bid by House Democrats earlier this month to resurrect their faltering jobs agenda with $10 billion in grants to school districts to avoid teacher layoffs, $5 billion for Pell Grants to low-income college students, $1 billion for a summer jobs program and $700 million to improve security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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So they hid all the BS in the disaster aid accounts.
You can bet the Rats will be looking for other bills to insert the pork into.
Look for O's passion index to rise as a result.
Absolutely, and the NEA will be fuming. :-)
ping for later
Only because November looms
I was just trying to keep track of this one, as I work for the USAF.
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