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Since the Democratically controlled Congress likes to play games with military budgets and insert meaningless spending totally unrelated into such bills – something they campaigned against by the way – the President has requested an emergency requirement to fund the needs of vets returning from Combat separate from the bill they’d rather ignore than deal with.
Dear Madam Speaker:
My Administration is committed to providing the resources needed to ensure that veterans, including those returning from current combat operations, receive the quality care and services they deserve.
In the FY 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Public Law 110‑161, $3,691,391,000 was designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement contingent upon a formal budget request by me that includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement. While I believe that these funds should have been considered as regular appropriations, the men and women who have sacrificed for our country should not be held hostage to budgetary wrangling in Washington. Therefore, to provide these funds in a timely manner I hereby request and designate as an emergency requirement the $3,691,391,000, consistent with Public Law 110-161.
Additional information on this action is set forth in the enclosed letter from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sincerely,
GEORGE W. BUSH
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sue
Hmmmm looks like its pony up time!!
Donna
Good for the president! I hope it works!
MissBirdlegs in AL
I really don’t know how he’s managed to stand up under the frustrations he must have felt every time he had to request something from the Axis of Idiots. I admire his poise and forbearance. I’d be kicking and screaming after 7 years of these nuts!
Isaac
Good for him. It seems he is getting his nerve back from before.
JD
No. He really does not. Walter Reed.
CJ
JD,
I’m going to educate you on something but I really want you to pay close attention. Are you ready? Are your ears clean and your mind open? Because this simple fact may be too easy to understand, but I want all you Bush bashers to really understand it.
Walter Reed is/was a MILITARY failure. WE failed to take care of our troops. The military did. The President does NOT run Walter Reed. He does not inspect it. He does not conduct the interviews. The NCOs and Officers stationed at Walter Reed failed those wounded troops. As a fellow Soldier who’s been to Walter Reed myself, I failed those troops.
I hope you’ve learned something today and can stop spreading your ignorant vitriol now. Place blame where blame is due and give it a rest.
Army Sergeant
Walter Reed was not a military failure. Walter Reed was a budget failure.
You can only do so much with the money you have. When the money for new buildings is paper-thin, you can’t fabricate new buildings out of paper. Housing and buildings are tough all over, because of this.
Now, as for something which is the President’s fault, what about him going before the Senate and saying that the GI Bill could not be increased, because it would hurt retention, in that too many soldiers would be tempted to get out and use it? Now that’s not taking care of soldiers.