My Personal Opinion...? Congress should be pulled from their viper nest in D.C. And publicly FLOGGED.

Lawmakers: Congress Failed on Heating Funds

By ANDREW MIGA,
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - Millions of low-income families will face a bleak winter because Congress failed to deliver home-heating funds, Northeast lawmakers warned Thursday.

"It was the wrong choice for the American people in this cold holiday season," said Sen. Jack Reed (news, bio, voting record), D-R.I., who led a Senate fight for fuel assistance.

Home-heat advocates had been hopeful as late as Wednesday night that the Senate would approve two spending bills providing $4.1 billion in fuel assistance. But $2 billion in energy aid was stripped from a defense appropriations bill along with a GOP-backed provision to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

That left just $2.1 billion for this winter's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, slightly below last year's funding.

"It looked like Congress was going to do the right thing, but it never happened," said Mark Wolfe of the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association, which represents state agencies that distribute heat aid.

In a separate budget-cutting bill Wednesday, the Senate approved $1 billion to help families heat their homes next winter. That money is stalled in the House.

Continues if you can stomach it....

---You punks can give YOURSELF pay raises and start TRILLION DOLLAR WARS quick enough huh..??

Oh you bastards...

Heartless cruel murdering warmongering looting chickenhawk little bastards.---