What in the HELL is wrong with Republicans?
Senate won’t add veterans’ health funds to supplemental
By Rick Maze
Times staff writer
By two 54-46 votes, the Senate blocked efforts Tuesday to add money for veterans’ health care to the 2005 supplemental appropriations bill.
Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, both members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, sought to add $1.9 billion to the $80.6 billion wartime emergency supplemental appropriations bill to cover costs of treating returning combat veterans for war-related injuries and to cover shortfalls in funding for VA programs.
The Bush administration sought no VA money as part of its supplemental funding request, and none was included in the version of the bill passed by the House in March.
Murray, however, said funding for veterans is critical because wounded service members will be seeking treatment from already underfunded facilities.
“The VA is not prepared to deal with soldiers coming home,” she said. “It is an emergency today. If we don’t deal with it, it will be a crisis tomorrow.”
http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-782283.php
---ALL of the Democrats voted FOR giving veterans MEDICAL TREATMENT...What is WRONG with these people?---
By Rick Maze
Times staff writer
By two 54-46 votes, the Senate blocked efforts Tuesday to add money for veterans’ health care to the 2005 supplemental appropriations bill.
Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, both members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, sought to add $1.9 billion to the $80.6 billion wartime emergency supplemental appropriations bill to cover costs of treating returning combat veterans for war-related injuries and to cover shortfalls in funding for VA programs.
The Bush administration sought no VA money as part of its supplemental funding request, and none was included in the version of the bill passed by the House in March.
Murray, however, said funding for veterans is critical because wounded service members will be seeking treatment from already underfunded facilities.
“The VA is not prepared to deal with soldiers coming home,” she said. “It is an emergency today. If we don’t deal with it, it will be a crisis tomorrow.”
http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-782283.php
---ALL of the Democrats voted FOR giving veterans MEDICAL TREATMENT...What is WRONG with these people?---
posted by Christy at 2:26 PM
2 Comments:
Only the sooooo called Christian right would not pass that bill, but then they got what they wanted, our sons and daughters, husband and wives to die and be maimed and wounded,for there corruption, they dont need the dead or wounded anymore they are not their, dead and wounded that is for sure, notice none of their children husbands wives are on the front line with no armour. and while your at it check to see which republican senators or house republicans severed their nation when called on to do so. Christian right Wake up American your kids need you to stay alive and see another tomorrow, which they wont get if this administration has its way
You know when I posted this I was thinking about that...I was honestly thinking the dead cost less than the wounded to our so called leaders..what BASTARDS.
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