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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 10:03 AM Mar 2015

Senate panel approves GOP budget w/ huge Pentagon boost

TheHill
Senate panel approves GOP budget
By Rebecca Shabad

Before final approval, the panel accepted an amendment from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) that increases the Pentagons war funding account from $58 billion to $96 billion.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/236357-senate-panel-approves-gop-budget

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Senate panel approves GOP budget w/ huge Pentagon boost (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP
I am speechless. This country is doomed if war is our priority and product. CurtEastPoint Mar 2015 #1
They got to pay back their defense contractor donors kimbutgar Mar 2015 #2

kimbutgar

(21,044 posts)
2. They got to pay back their defense contractor donors
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 11:25 AM
Mar 2015

It's a pay to play world in our congress.

But to harm the poor, sick and disabled shows that the republicans are no Christians as they claim.

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