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The House of Representatives need to vote. Who's holding that up?
Here's the wording of the military pay law Congress passed prior to the shutdown.
(a) In General- There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2014, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal year 2014 are not in effect--
(1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces (as defined in section 101(a)(4) of title 10, United States Code), including reserve components thereof, who perform active service during such period;
Obama doesn't think the Death Gratuity (what a strange name) is covered under "allowances"? That's their story?
Keep in mind, Obama claimed the unilateral right to delay the ObamaCare employer mandate for a year because, You know what, this is a tweak that doesnt go to the essence of the law,.
Now he's suddenly Mr. Strict Constructionist? Screw him.
dimocraps are the scum of the Earth
ALL of them
it's amazing how 1 unnamed and anonymous and more than likely fictitious, non existent park ranger that supposedly mouthed that 'obama told him to make it as rough as possible on us folks'....has been TWISTED AND SPUN in to Obama SAID to make it as hard and difficult as they can.....it only took a day at most to blog, reblog, post, and like and tweet and blog again, like, tweet, post, email, etc etc etc..... to spread the Lie! Gosh, you guys are really good at this shit!!!!Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale warned in late September that military death-benefit payments would be delayed for families of troops who were killed during a government shutdown, but it took until the second week of the crisis for members of Congress to propose doing anything about it.
"We would also be required to do some ... bad things to our people," Hale warned during a briefing on September 27, detailing the negative effects of a shutdown on the military. "We couldn't immediately pay death gratuities to those who die on active duty during the lapse."
Hale said the situation "is ghoulish, but it's the law, not policy. Remember that.
I don't know a single Democrat or liberal that is happy with the government shutdown. I do know a lot of GOP and Conservative members that wanted this and are quite happy now that it is here. The Republicans planned and engineered this shutdown from the get-go. Stop throwing rocks and then hiding your hands. You simply can't bitch because the essential government services YOU had shut down are shut down.
I don't know a single Democrat or liberal that is happy with the government shutdown. I do know a lot of GOP and Conservative members that wanted this and are quite happy now that it is here. The Republicans planned and engineered this shutdown from the get-go. Stop throwing rocks and then hiding your hands. You simply can't bitch because the essential government services YOU had shut down are shut down.
Sure. Tell that to the Park Rangers. They were told to make an 18% government shutdown as painful as possible. Funny how the other 82% kept going.
Why isn't federal funding for abortion stopped? You know it has'nt because starkey, closed, and seawatch aren't raising hell.
Why isn't federal funding for abortion stopped? You know it has'nt because starkey, closed, and seawatch aren't raising hell.
There is no Federal Funding for abortion so you point is moot.
Why isn't federal funding for abortion stopped? You know it has'nt because starkey, closed, and seawatch aren't raising hell.
There is no Federal Funding for abortion so you point is moot.
Okay my fault. I meant federal funding for planned parenthood. Samething.
By dimocraps.
The House and the Senate passed a bill that they were ASSURED by the DoD would take care of this problem.
The "Pay Our Soldiers Act"
The White House and dimocrap scum in general promised this wouldn't happen.
But, as we all know --
dimocraps lie. It's what they do
Bastards--Shutdown Theater Holding Up Death Benefits To Families Of The Fallen
Ace of Spades HQ
When members of the US Armed Forces are killed their families receive a $100,000 "Death Gratuity". This benefit is supposed to be paid within days of the service members death.
Just before the shutdown went into effect the House and Senate passed and Obama signed a bill ensuring that members of the military would be paid and that benefits of all sorts would continue to be honored.
Tragically, 5 US service members were killed in Afghanistan last week. The Department of Defense tweeted(!) that because of the shutdown their families couldn't receive their payment.
Republican House members are outraged that not only is Obama refusing to pay the authorized benefit but won't answer any questions about it from Congress.
The GOP is going to pass another bill specifically designed to force the administration to pay the families.
Military foundation steps up to cover 'disgusting' delay in payments for families of fallen - U.S. News
Republican aides in Congress said that they were drafting legislation to restore the death gratuity and that it could be put to a vote as early as Wednesday. The aides also said they believed that last week's law had covered the payment.
"We gave broad authority to the Department of Defense to pay all kinds of bills, including this," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday afternoon. "And frankly, I think it's disgraceful that they're withholding these benefits. But again, tomorrow, the House is going to act specifically on this, and I hope the president will sign it."
But for now, the $100,000 government payment is being withheld for relatives of the five killed over the weekend in Afghanistan four from the Army and one from the Marines.
I miss Jimmy Carter. Yeah he was awful but at least you never got the sense he was out and out anti-American. I simply can't say the same about Obama and his minions.
Edge:
I hate dimocraps.
All of them
