Senate GOP Blocks Veterans Jobs Bill
Source: Roll Call
Senate Republicans today defeated Democratic legislation designed to help veterans get jobs, complaining that the measure violates budget rules and is meant to score political points rather than help veterans.
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Democrats sought to waive budget rules, but the proposal failed 58-40, with most Republicans voting against it. Sixty votes were needed to overcome the procedural hurdle and push the bill toward final passage. Five Republicans - Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dean Heller (Nev.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) - voted with all 53 members of the Democratic Conference to sidestep the procedural roadblock.
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Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who is in a tight race for re-election, said the GOP blocked the bill because it's a White House proposal and because he is a co-sponsor.
"They are going to kill it on a technicality," Nelson said. "That is what is going on here, and it's sad."
Senate Veterans' Affairs Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said the cost of the bill, $1 billion over five years, is offset. She noted that a vote to block the measure is tantamount to saying the nation has done enough for veterans.
"A vote to support this point of order says that despite the fact that we have paid for this bill, despite the fact that one in four young veterans are out of work, despite the fact that veterans suicides are outpacing combat deaths, and despite the fact that more and more veterans are coming home, we are not going to invest in these challenges," Murray said.
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sakabatou
(42,152 posts)I think I got it: S.3429
jpbollma
(552 posts)eom
Stuart G
(38,420 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)again! Shafting Veterans no less. If they win a plurality this election all my sarcasm concerning the american voter will be justified.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)Hey, don't do us any favors Coburn - you can resign now - it will do you and the country good.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)They do not care. They simply want to use the lives of veterans to defeat Obama.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)And never will.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)kids and then take the Oil and rare earth metals,and F--- over the kids when they come home. Ike was right,beware of the Military Industrial Complex. Notice the voting pattern,Brown and Heller,are in losing races,Nevada Dems (mostly Casino and food service workers)are organized baby. Their wearing their buttons and walking the talk. Lots of high fives all over Vegas and Reno.
New VA center in Vegas and this put Heller on his heels. Waiting for Ensign to bit the legal justice.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)oldsarge54
(582 posts)You still aren't helping the new vets. We Nam era types got crapped upon enough. We WON'T stand for it for our kids and grandkids. Does the Republican Party have any last words, or a request for a blindfold and cigarette?
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)And healthcare!
If they cared about their country, they would have been born rich. And served in France!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Or expect four more years of this.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)Marthe48
(16,948 posts)It is ridiculous that the Senate seems to require a 'super majority' for every freaking thing that passes--it is to protect against a fillibuster, right? Is every bill going to be subject to fillibuster? Is there that much hot air in the Senate? Cut us a break and get rid of cloture.
Stuart G
(38,420 posts)200 million out of a budget of hudreds of billions a year...we cannot afford it this asshole says..John McCain voted against this one..
How can these people say the U.S.A. cannot afford to help vets...so what the hell it is an election year..
Every single vet in this country sould vote against these jerks..
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,943 posts)How many of these who voted no ever served in the military?