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On shutdown, Rep. Nugent sounds duplicity alert
Posted Apr 8, 2011 by Tom Jackson
Updated Apr 8, 2011 at 12:34 PM
A right and proper excoriation of those in Washington who would attempt to use America’s fighting personnel as political pawns arrives from the office of freshman Congressman Rich Nugent (R-Spring Hill):
PRESIDENT AND SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE CONVERSATION;
OUR TROOPS DESERVE THE TRUTH(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In response to news that Senate Democrats have repeatedly voted for the provision they are claiming to now oppose, Rep. Rich Nugent (R-FL-05) released the following statement:
“Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to ensure that our troops would be funded in the event of a government shutdown. The same bill also included funding to keep the government open for another week while reducing non-defense discretionary spending levels by $12 billion.“Inexplicably, the President threatened to veto the troop funding. The Democrats are citing a very common policy rider in the bill that would prevent federal funding of abortions in the District of Columbia as the reason. 49 sitting Democrats in the Senate have voted for and President Obama has signed into law this very provision in previous bills. President Obama in fact voted for it twice during his brief time in the Senate, Vice President Biden has voted for this provision seven times since 1995, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has voted for it ten times.
“To shut down the government and refuse to pay the troops under the guise that you don’t support a federal abortion funding ban that you have voted for repeatedly is dishonest and it is irresponsible. If President Obama wants to veto the bill and shut down the government because he doesn’t want to cut spending by a fraction of one percent, he needs to come out and say that. Our troops deserve the truth.”
**Recent Democrat-supported spending bills that have contained the same policy include: The FY09 Omnibus Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-8), the FY08 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 110-161), and the FY07 Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution (Public Law 110-5).**
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