In a vote of 315-109, the House of Representatives has passed a Fiscal Year 2014 military spending bill, setting aside $595 billion for military funding, including $82.3 billion for war funding.
The war funding was the amount President Obama requested, but saw money shifted out of Afghanistan by several amendments, including the Mulvaney Amendment (passed 215-206) which trimmed $3.5 billion in funding for the Afghan War.
Other amendments mostly affirmed the status quo, blocking the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees, while the Amash Amendment to scrap the NSA telephone surveillance program failed 205-217.
Positive amendments are unlikely to survive as the bill moves on to the Senate and is then reconciled at any rate, and the huge amount of money thrown at the military annually continues.
Amerika is finished..Jimmy is right–we ARE NOT A DEMOCRATIC ANYTHING–but a filthy nazi war machine..duh
I think the roll call vote (in the link to the NYT) should be the roadmap for who needs to be voted out in the next general election. There is NO viable explanation that they use to justify their voting to sustain the violation of the Constitution/BOR.
With the relative approval rating of the Congress as low as it is now you would think that voting these cretins out would be a no-brainer…but that's what the voters continue to use…no brain. Time to make them publicly defend their votes – and ask them the hard questions, not the FOX-MSNBC-type softballs usually asked. If we don't start taking responsibility for who we vote in then we'll have no one to blame except ourselves.
So where did the money come from, oh that's right they just printed it.