Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 Is there a holiday anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auburn85 432 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 you're baitin' us memorial day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 you're baitin' us memorial day That's a Mulligan! 1. They are U.S. Senators...(Auburn85) 2. who are Republicans...(AUTiger1) 3. who will be attending various Memorial Day ceremonies...(Auburn85) 4. 5. and voted against the 2008 GI Bill (AUHonors) Sorry...I goofed. There's only 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUTiger1 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I give up, what is #4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 I give up, what is #4? You're using a lifeline, right? OK. Hint is on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auburn85 432 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I give up, what is #4? You're using a lifeline, right? OK. Hint is on the way. ah heck, i thought we were playing family fued ....top 6.....5 answers are on the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 All of these images share one thing in common. What is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUTiger1 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 They all contain a flag lapel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUTiger1 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 They all contain a flag lapel. Flag lapel pin..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 They all contain a flag lapel. 1. They are U.S. Senators...(Auburn85) 2. who are Republicans...(AUTiger1) 3. who will be attending various Memorial Day ceremonies...(Auburn85) 4. wearing their flag pins...(AUTiger1) 5. after voting against the 2008 GI Bill (AUHonors) Happy Memorial Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,126 Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Gee, why would any American vote against the G.I. Bill ? Maybe here's why.... By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite numerous veto threats, senators in both parties have loaded up President Bush's war funding bill with a grab bag of domestic programs, including work permits for immigrant farm labor and heating subsidies for the poor. Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate would begin debate on the measure Tuesday, just days after a key panel added more than $28 billion to Bush's budget request for this year and next, with almost $50 billion more for a big expansion of veterans benefits under the GI Bill over 2010-2018. Reid faces enormous procedural headaches in getting the war funding bill - and its various add-ons - passed this week. Democrats have divided the war funding bill into two components: non-war add-ons and Iraq funding and policy restrictions. Reid has signaled he wants the non-war extras to get a vote before the war funding itself, but it's a high-wire strategy. ``It is going to be extremely difficult for us to get from where we are today to completing this legislation,'' Reid said. The new GI Bill and Democratic priorities like extending unemployment benefits are simply the big-ticket add-ons, both of which have drawn veto threats. There's also $50 million to track down child predators, $400 million to help rural schools and $350 million to fight western wildfires, just for starters. ( Admirable causes, but there's no place for these on the G.I. Bill ) Senators are acting as if the war funding bill coming to the floor Tuesday is the last train leaving the station, and, as a result, have added billions of dollars for pet programs and hitched on several policy ``riders'' as well. Few if any other spending bills are likely to come before the Senate this election year, which makes the supplemental measure an even more attractive vehicle for carrying spending proposals that would otherwise stall. The White House is fighting the add-ons much more vigorously than it did during last year's bruising war funding debate. Then, it accepted $17 billion in spending that Bush didn't ask for as the price for getting an Iraq war funding bill that didn't tie his hands on the war. Now that it's clear that Democrats won't insist on a troop withdrawal timeline, the White House is focusing on making sure the measure doesn't exceed his request. The Senate war funding bill combines $194.1 billion in spending over 2008-2009 for war funding, foreign aid, military base construction, heating subsidies and a variety of smaller items. Then there's $15.6 billion to give 13 weeks of unemployment checks to people whose benefits have run out and $51.6 billion over 10 years to improve GI Bill benefits. There's $108 billion remaining from Bush's war funding request for the 2008 budget year ending Sept. 30. But the White House appears willing to lump that request together with $70 billion to carry the war into next spring, as well as Bush's $5.8 billion request to construct levees in Louisiana. That puts Bush's request at $183.8 billion - more than $10 billion below the Senate measure. The immigrant farm labor provision added to the measure at a hearing last week by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, would allow almost 1.4 million immigrant farm workers to stay in the United States for up to five years to ease a shortage of farm workers that has left some crops rotting in the fields. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., followed that up with a provision to extend an expired program to allow seasonal workers to return to the country using H-2B visas. Gregg, typically a fiscal conservative, voted with Democrats at last week's hearing to adopt $1 billion worth of additional energy subsidies for the poor. That provision led top Appropriations panel Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi - himself the driving force behind more than $1 billion for Mississippi - to warn his colleagues that they were simply guaranteeing a Bush veto. Still, Republicans such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas - a member of the Senate GOP leadership team - pressed ahead with add-ons of their own. Hutchison won approval of $100 million in grants for local law enforcement to fight drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. It's the type of situation White House budget director Jim Nussle had in mind last month when he chided senators for a ``sky-is-the-limit mind-set'' regarding ``the desire of some in Congress to load up this troop funding bill with tens of billions in additional spending.'' Republican Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri moved to keep open three ``veterans business resource centers'' with $600,000 in taxpayer funds. One of the centers, naturally, is in St. Louis; the others were in Flint, Mich., and Boston. (This version CORRECTS that $1 billion is for all Mississippi projects.) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 I think you should read your article a little closer. Those are two separate bills he's talking about, the GI Bill and the war funding bill, hence the phrasing. "The new GI Bill and Democratic priorities like extending unemployment benefits are simply the big-ticket add-ons, both of which have drawn veto threats." Here's a link to the bill, S22. LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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