What emergency?(DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY)

From: DAV Magazine | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

It is a sad state of affairs when much-needed funding for our troops in Iraq, communities destroyed by last year's hurricanes and sick and disabled veterans is held hostage by a dispute over billions of dollars in pork-barrel earmarks stuffed into an "emergency" spending bill.

The trouble started in April when the Senate passed a $109 billion version of an emergency supplemental appropriations bill, which was substantially more than the $91.9 billion called for in the bill passed by the House in March. President Bush, who asked for $92.2 billion to pay for operations in Iraq ...

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