The House bill would extend the shutdown deadline by another week, to April 15, while funding defense needs for the rest of this year so that troops’ paychecks would not be endangered by a shutdown.
...and that is what Obama objects to...he wants to use military pay as a bargaining tool to protect his pet projects. Politics at it's most cynical.
11 posted on 04/07/2011 10:10:37 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
13 posted on 04/07/2011 10:15:22 AM PDT by null and void
(We are now in day 805 of our national holiday from reality. - That 3 AM phone call? Voicemail...)
