Proposal to End Military Abortion Ban Complicates Defense Budget Bill

[Gerald]

Add abortion to the list of hot-button social issues that could derail a sweeping budget blueprint for the nation's military.

An amendment from Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., to end a longstanding ban on abortions at U.S. military hospitals overseas is attached to the defense authorization bill set to come up for a vote in the Senate.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/20/proposal-end-military-abortion-ban-complicates-defense-budget/




Note:Published September 20, 2010

[SteamWake]

WTH Reid trys to slip an amnesty bill in ...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/immigration/4599-reid-pushes-for-amnesty-through-defense-policy-bill

now this :doh:

Shouldent a defense budget bill be about I dunno a defense budget?

[TLAM Strike]

Shouldent a defense budget bill be about I dunno a defense budget?

Defense budget bill? Oh you mean the Lockheed stimulus package?

:haha:

[Gerald]

The U.S. military is being muddied in the trench as Democrats and Republicans fight a tug-of-war over social issues timed weeks before Election Day.What should have been a routine budget bill for the Pentagon is now a political cauldron brimming with proposed policy changes over abortion, gay rights and illegal immigration. Senate Democrats have folded, or attempted to fold, all those issues into a single defense package, leading to accusations that the Senate is needlessly politicizing its annual obligation to fund the military. As the parties hurl political hand grenades at one another, stuck in the crossfire is the military itself.Joe Davis, spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said Congress will avoid a Pentagon shutdown, as it always does, by passing a resolution to continue funding defense at current levels.But he expressed concern about the "attachments" to the authorization bill.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/20/military-caught-middle-political-brawl-social-issues/



Note:Published September 20

[ETR3(SS)]

I got an idea that will make every Congressman happy! Screw the Defense Budget, take that money and devote it to congressional pay raises, retirement plans, and insurance plans.:yeah:

/end sarcasm

[Gerald]

ETR3 (SS) Why do not you political career, with so many good ideas, I think the whole country is in need of balls :O:

[Gerald]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military.

The partisan vote was a defeat for gay rights groups who saw the provision in a defense authorization bill as their last chance any time soon to overturn the law known as "don't ask, don't tell."

Democrats fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the legislation, which authorized $726 billion in defense spending including a pay raise for troops.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/21/procedural-vote-stalls-defense-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell/



Note:Published September 21, 2010