The realities of budget problems and huge Pentagon budgets appear to be lost on the House of Representatives. In a 326-90 vote, the House passed another massive military spending bill, approving another $606 billion in spending.
Budget cuts weren’t the order of the day. Indeed, some weapons programs that the Pentagon had hoped to get rid of were re-funded by the bill, and cuts in direct war spending were replaced with a massive increase to a “contingency operations” budget, to be set aside for other wars that the president might start between now and the end of Fiscal 2013.
The only spending not approved were things not proposed in the first place, bans on military aid to Iran and Syria, and barring funds from being used in relation to certain Russian companies. Perhaps the oddest move was that exactly two months after the House itself had ended the military’s NASCAR sponsorships, they decided to put them back in. It was one of the few close votes of the day, with 216 voting against keeping the ban in place and 202 wanting it to stay.
All in all the bill weighed in at several billion dollars more than the Pentagon had sought in the first place, and even further than that above the “spending cap” they were supposed to adhere to. The bill is likely to face another major battle in the Senate, though there seems to be little appetite in either house of Congress for meaningful cuts.
why isn't this a surprise. Or,are they just making themselves redundant.
Grab your ankles, then grab them again…the Pentagon is NOT your friend. Kill and kill, and kill once more. Is your man hole getting sore ????
Why doesn't Congress just demolish the Capitol Building and take turns meeting at the Pentagon and the Israeli Knesset?
Exactly. It's only symbolic of the old lies we were fed our entire lives. Why not just feed us the truth in all it's brazen totalitarianism?
RParker,
They're already meeting at Israeli Knesset. It's called capital Building!
Obama and the Dems are useless. Why bother to vote. No one listens to the people.
Another Licence To Kill.
Billions of dollars to be WASTED on Arms.
Whats the difference between the killing of cinema patrons in the US by a lone gunman and the killing of hundreds of innocent civilians in Yemen and Afghanistan by DRONES operated by the US?
OBAMA condemns the former as a sensless act of evil BUT praises the latter as an act of great courage and heaps bravery medals on the operators of his killing machines.
NOW HE HAS MORE MONEY TO CONTINUE THE ACTS OF EVIL THAT HE HAS UNLEASHED ON THE WORLD.
Wake up America . Start INSISTING that YOUR congressmen and Senators start listening to YOU.