Congress vows to refute Bush on budget

[unhappycamper]

Congress vows to refute Bush on budget
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Nov 5, 2007 17:39:15 EST

With a showdown coming as early as this weekend over federal spending, the war of words over budget priorities is heating up.

By week’s end, the Democratic-controlled Congress plans to send the White House a $215.4 billion appropriations package for the current fiscal year that will include money for the departments of Veterans Affairs, Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, as well as military construction. The bill includes about $14 billion more in spending than the Bush administration requested, which has prompted the threat of a veto.

Bush called the Democratic plan a “cynical ploy.” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Monday that the bundled bill is a “diversion” that just delays a final agreement on spending.

David Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said Monday that it is “not reasonable for the president or the Republican leadership to insist that we must exactly comply with the president’s budget levels or he will veto our work product.”

“It is not reasonable for the president to demand that we give him another $200 billion for the quagmire of Iraq and then try to reclaim the mantle of fiscal responsibility by requiring short-sighted reductions in key domestic investments that will make our country stronger,” Obey said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

“It is not credible for the president to make a federal case out of our desires to provide $20 billion for veterans’ health care, cancer research, Pell Grants, energy research and law enforcement while he wants to spend ten times that much in the Iraqi black hole.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/military_appropriationsfight_071105w/

[Eagle_Eye]

1. It is not that little george does not want to spend more money on the military

little george wants to spend more money on what bush 43 wants. Our Democrats are on the right track in increasing the funding for the Veterans who have served this country. I can only hope we keep on the path of taking care of the Veterans, and not let this issue become a political football where each side proposes increases / cuts just to spite the other side. The big losers would be the Veterans.