Posted on 05/14/2011 3:24:55 AM PDT by UniqueViews
A House panel approved a defense bill early Thursday that would delay President Obama's new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military and limit the commander in chief's authority on slashing the nation's nuclear arsenal.
By a vote of 60-1, the House Armed Services Committee approved the broad, $553 billion defense blueprint that would provide a 1.6 percent increase in military pay, fund an array of aircraft, ships and submarines, slightly increase health care fees for working-age retirees and meet the Pentagon's request for an additional $118 billion to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The committee, on a 33-27 vote, adopted an amendment by Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., R-Calif., that would require all four service chiefs to certify that the change won't hurt troops' ability to fight. The repeal law only requires certification from the president, defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs chairman.
Over the objections of the Defense Department and Democrats, the panel approved an amendment that would prohibit money to take nuclear weapons out of operation unless the administration provides a report to Congress on how it plans to modernize the remaining weapons. The panel also adopted an amendment that says the president may not change the target list or move weapons out of Europe until he reports to Congress. The votes were 35-26.
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Congrats D2! Good to see you following in your father's footsteps.
I still believe there is a UCMJ problem that was not talked about up to now. The Congress has to amend the UCMJ to remove the crime of sodomy. I know some here disagreed saying the military could unilaterally change to UCMJ but they can’t. The Congress has that power not the Joint Chiefs.
The non-fraternization sections have to be removed as well.
...By a vote of 60-1, the House Armed Services Committee approved the broad, $553 billion defense blueprint... The committee, on a 33-27 vote, adopted an amendment by Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., R-Calif., that would require all four service chiefs to certify that the change won't hurt troops' ability to fight... Over the objections of the Defense Department and Democrats, the panel approved an amendment that would prohibit money to take nuclear weapons out of operation unless the administration provides a report to Congress on how it plans to modernize the remaining weapons. The panel also adopted an amendment that says the president may not change the target list or move weapons out of Europe until he reports to Congress. The votes were 35-26.
“an additional $118 billion to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Our resources are not unlimited. After more than a decade, the sooner we leave those cesspools, the better.
“Homosexuals.” They’re homosexuals. And there is nothing gay about them.
Remember how the Republicans promised to build the fence just before GW’s second election run? How did that turn out?
Lucy and football come to mind........
If there had been a homosexual on my ship he would have been in a tiny little room with steel bars on the door. Patsy Schroeder bless her little heart got women on line ships the year I left, they quickly earned the title Love Boats as, if memory serves all save one girl came back pregnant.
Politics will not save our Republic, because we are sick at our very foundation, we are bastards that do not no our fathers.
... so as to allow unfettered corruption and exploitation in the military?
I don't think so.
you guess?!?
The dont ask dont tell repeal was ramrodded through the lame duck session precisely because the Dems knew it would be slowed or stopped if the GOP was in charge.
There... Fixed it for you!
Remember when Clinton came into office? One of the first things he did was to try to repeal the ban on gays in the military. That is when Colin Powell worked out a compromise with Clinton know as don’t ask don’t tell. The Democrats have been pandering to the gays for a long time.
“America Runs on Duncan
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To help slow down the repeal, Congressman Hunter is asking for greater involvement from military leaders who actually oversee the operations. “I, and others in this room, have more combat experience than the folks who sign off on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” he said.
Unlike Hunter, who served three Marine tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trifecta of President Obama, Secretary Robert Gates, and Admiral Mike Mullen have almost zero combat experience—yet they’re the ones tinkering with military readiness.”
more http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU11E07&f=PG07J01
Ditto.
The DoD has no current plans to rewrite the UCMJ, specifically Article 125 for Sodomy. The Supreme Court has “decriminalized” certain provisions of that charge so it doesn’t apply anymore. The fraternization policy contained in AR 600-20 has always been “gender neutral.”
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