Posted on 11/19/2012 6:59:24 PM PST by Revel
Against GOP objections, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the Obama administration is sending $147 million in funding to the West Bank and Hamas-run Gaza.
Despite a hold by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the administration is arguing the money needs to be sent on humanitarian grounds. They did not, however, explain how they plan to force Hamas to use the money for humanitarian purposes.
And while administrations generally do not disburse funding over the objections of lawmakers on relevant committees, those associated with Obama have proven more than willing to sidestep Congress to place American tax-dollars in the hands of their friends throughout the world. It was, after all, just last month that the administration circumvented Congress and gave $1.5 billion in aid to the Muslim Brotherhood-run Egyptian government.
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HA-HA, I was just thinking the same thing. She's gained a few pounds too.
Notice Hillary was on all the channels when they got Bin-Laben. I bet she led the operation.
This Marxist administration needs to be stopped, once and for all. The power of the purse clearly lies with the Congress; more specifically, the House.
Obama doesn’t care.....he continues to do whatever the hell his sick mind desires to...
I am thinking Obama and Hillary have teamed up with Iran to turn middle east into terrorist nations..taking down jordan, israel , saudi
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