Sen. Clinton joins Armed Forces committee (BEAST ALERT!)

News Radio 88 ^ | 1/14/03

[areafiftyone]

Washington-AP) -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will join the Senate Committee on Armed Forces.

Clinton, who has already been a member of the Budget and Environment committees, joins the Armed Forces Committee at a time when the United States military faces a possible war with Iraq, a nuclear standoff with North Korea, and the ongoing threat from al Qaida.

The committee's jurisdiction includes all the national security programs at the Department of Defense, as well as the nuclear programs at the Department of Energy.

She is the first New York senator to serve on the committee since it was formed in 1947.

Clinton said now she ``will be better able to support New York's military bases and ensure that New York's defense industry continues to play a significant role in fulfilling the needs of our armed forces.''

New York State is home to a number of important installations, including the military academy at West Point and Fort Drum, where the 10th Mountain Division trains.

[Commander8]

A bit like trusting the fox to guard the henhouse, isn't it?

[Wphile]

Oh man...I'm gonna be sick.

[Commander8]

A bit like trusting the fox to guard the henhouse, isn't it?

[OldFriend]

PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY

[blackdog]

Most professionals destroy cancers. Why does the Senate just help it spread to other vital organs?

[copycat]

The committee's jurisdiction includes all the national security programs at the Department of Defense, as well as the nuclear programs at the Department of Energy.

Hubby misses his intelligence briefings?

[fogarty]

Great things ahead for the US Senate. (/sarcasm) I thought everything was supposed to be rosy since Bush forced Lott to go. Everything is just rosy alright.

[rintense]

You have GOT to be kidding me!

[rintense]

You have GOT to be kidding me!

[blackdog]

Then again......Grumman, Inland motors, and many other defense contractors are based in New York. Won't it be funny to watch the She Beast become a war monger? She has never put her financial interests ahead of anything else, ever. This in an odd way may become her undoing within her base.

Huge risks though.

[Dengar01]

I wonder who would be worse her or upchuck schummer.

[ewing]

This is bad news.

[ApesForEvolution]

You took the words right off my keyboard...never has a first lady - now US Sen. had more disdain for America's military than this...woman?

[wardaddy]

My 70 year old widowed mother is a more qualified than The Shrew.

Who determines minority party appointments to committees? Daschle?

[sheik yerbouty]

Where was the barf alert?

[ApesForEvolution]

Who assigns RATS to committees?

[Polybius]

Clinton said now she ``will be better able to support New York's military bases and ensure that New York's defense industry continues to play a significant role in fulfilling the needs of our armed forces.''

Translation: "I'm here for the pork barrel."

[areafiftyone]

Exactly what I was thinking. God help them!!

[NormsRevenge]

At first glance, this sucks I agree, but when you also remember that we don;t have any secrets left anyway after the Reign of x42 and his wholesale allowing of the stealing and buying of anything the ChiComs wanted , let her be. Better to have her here under oath and constant surveillance then letting her try and fix healthcare again.