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Senate Adopts Cloture Motion on 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill
9 hours ago ago from S E N A T U S
Senators have adopted a procedural (cloture) motion to limit debate on the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act ( H.R. 3326 ) by a vote of 63 to 33 . Sixty votes were needed to pass this motion. A vote on final passage of the appropriations measure is expected to occur on Saturday. According to the AP , a “stopgap funding measure expires at midnight on Friday, but White House budget director Peter Orszag has advised Senate ...
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8 hours ago ago from UNITED STATEDUNITED STATED
UNITED STATED Must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of the remaining congressional agenda besides health care easily cleared a key Senate hurdles early Friday morning. Anchored by a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, the measure also carries short-term extensions of unemployment benefits, highway and transit funding, key pieces of the anti-terror Patriot Act and prevents doctors from shouldering a 21 percent cut in Medicare ...
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8 hours ago ago from FROM THE WILDERNESS
By Joe Kishore 12-18-09 With overwhelming bipartisan support, the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a massive $636 billion military appropriations bill for 2010. The bill includes some $128 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it does not fully fund the Obama administration’s escalation in Afghanistan, making likely further appropriations for war [...]
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21 hours ago ago from Musings On Iraq
The new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report to Congress was released at the end of October 2009. It notes that Iraq is still having problems spending its budget. By June 2009 50% of Iraq’s $58.6 billion budget had been released, but only $16.4 billion, 27.9%, had been spent as of that month. $1.6 billion of that was for capital projects that are investments in infrastructure and services. The provinces had $16.4 billion, ...
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There are currently 104,000 Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan a figure that could soon rise to 160,000 . (Compare this figure to the 100, 000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan expected at the height of Obama’s coming surge.) Finally, Congress is launching a broad-ranging investigation into possible waste, misuse and corruption tied to billions of taxpayer dollars used to support these private military contractors in Afghanistan . The U.S. ...
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Senate Passes $626 Billion Pentagon Bill, Defeats GOP Stalling On Health Care
2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON Must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of this year's remaining congressional agenda except for health care easily cleared a key Senate hurdle early Friday morning. Anchored by a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, the measure also carries short-term extensions of unemployment benefits, highway and transit funding, key pieces of the anti-terror Patriot Act and a measure to save doctors from shouldering a 21 percent cut in ...
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I have taken a quick look at the brand, spanking new 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Conference Report - the bill with the final say on how much money will be dealt to the Pentagon. Up to their usual unseemly tricks, the House and Senate Appropriations Committee Porkers, (led by Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) have not changed their squiggly little tails; they continue to pile on the pork in defense budget ...
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By Ashby Jones Successful bill of attainder challenges are rare. Very rare. Like once-in-a-generation kind of rare. And that makes us ever more interested in the case winding its way through the federal courts involving Acorn, the polarizing community-organizing group. Here's the story: Congress cut off funding to Acorn after the organization was caught up in a storm of controversy. The move came after hidden-camera videos showed ...
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Congress to probe private military contractors in Afghanistan STORY HIGHLIGHTS Among questions is whether $2.2 billion trucking contract went to pay warlords Serious allegations have been brought to [Congress'] attention, says congressman It has been determined these reports warrant a full-scale ... investigation, Rep. Tierney said
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