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http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2015/06/18/ndaa-senate-approval/28930273/
So the Senate has drafted and passed the Defense Bill with all the provisions that everyone in power wants (retirement overhaul being key) yet POTUS is still threatening to veto it.
Could it be because Democrats and Republicans can never see eye to eye and always want to get their own way?
As Rodney King once said, "Can't we all just get along?"
What say you RP members?
So the Senate has drafted and passed the Defense Bill with all the provisions that everyone in power wants (retirement overhaul being key) yet POTUS is still threatening to veto it.
Could it be because Democrats and Republicans can never see eye to eye and always want to get their own way?
As Rodney King once said, "Can't we all just get along?"
What say you RP members?
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you know, there have been many occasions I had request I knew superiors or senior executives wouldn't necessarily agree with or like. Before I crafted the formal request, I went to head shed and had a conversation about my intent and their concerns. It kept me from wasting both of our time processing requests that wasn't going anywhere but back to me disapproved.
Legislative and Executive branches need to quit beating a dead horse, have a conversation about each others' concerns instead of shoving partisan ideology down each others' throat without regard to the other.
Legislative and Executive branches need to quit beating a dead horse, have a conversation about each others' concerns instead of shoving partisan ideology down each others' throat without regard to the other.
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PO1 John Miller
CSM Michael J. Uhlig, could be! What else is new given the recent history of the Defense Spending Bill?
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I don't think the President knows what to do when legislation passes the way it is supposed to in 14 appropriations bills instead of one big fat continuing resolution. It has never happened during his time in office.
The net effect is that it changes the politics that has been the norm, where a whole bunch of stuff that would never stand on their own merit get shoved in the omnibus bill and everyone holds their nose and votes for it to prevent a shutdown. Normal apprpriations make the congressional committees far more powerful and make the various department and agency heads go up to the hill to defend their budget and support any new initiatives.
I say that it is about time. I am all for it.
The net effect is that it changes the politics that has been the norm, where a whole bunch of stuff that would never stand on their own merit get shoved in the omnibus bill and everyone holds their nose and votes for it to prevent a shutdown. Normal apprpriations make the congressional committees far more powerful and make the various department and agency heads go up to the hill to defend their budget and support any new initiatives.
I say that it is about time. I am all for it.
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PO1 John Miller
1SG (Join to see), the thing that concerns me is the reduction in defense spending which would directly affect active duty members such as yourself. Those reductions would be your pay raise, training, etc. I remember shortly before I retired and the defense bill wasn't going to be approved, meaning that active duty wasn't going to get paid, period yet we were still going to be expected to show up to work. That I am NOT for.
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PO1 John Miller - I don't think the President is really going to veto it, I think that the White House was not prepared to see the defense budget show up on his desk as a standard appropriations bill, unencumbered by all of the miscellaneous programs that got shoved in the omnibus/ continuing resolution bills. I think he is trying to triangulate a way to get the DoD budget tethered to domestic spending bills, knowing that he will have tough sledding in Congress if they have to stand on their own merit and actually get scrutinized in committee.
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