{"id":8896,"date":"2012-09-20T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:13:27","slug":"republicans-block-jobs-for-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/republicans-block-jobs-for-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Block Jobs for Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to crow about how they and they alone support our troops, but in RepubliSpeak, that only means spending billions to greedy war contractors.  Republicans have no concern for the men and women who have put their lives on the line to serve our nation.  If they cared, they would not have done this!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Legislation to put veterans to work preserving and restoring national parks and other federal, state and local lands was defeated Wednesday afternoon when Senate Republicans successfully blocked the bill\u2019s advance<\/strong> with a budgetary point of order.<\/p>\n

The largely party-line Senate vote of 58-40 fell two votes short of the three-fifths majority needed to overcome the procedural objection. Republicans said the Veterans Job Corps bill violated the Budget Control Act by adding a new program that would increase the deficit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to kill it on a technicality,\u201d Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), one of the bill\u2019s co-sponsors, said on the floor before the vote. \u201cThat\u2019s the bottom line here. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on here, and it\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats charged that Republican opposition stemmed from a refusal to support an initiative<\/a> that originated in the White House. The corps, loosely based on the Civilian Conservation Corps created during the Great Depression, would employ veterans in conservation, resource management and historic preservation projects on public lands. The legislation would also provide for hiring veterans as police officers and firefighters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said the measure would have \u201csailed\u201d through the Senate in past years but had been derailed by partisanship. \u201cBlocking a veterans\u2019 jobs bill is a new low<\/strong>,\u201d he said in a statement\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: Anti-Republican Crusaders<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow and former Congressman and Iraq vet Patrick Murphy discuss how Republicans cravenly turned their backs on our vets.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Murphy is right. This is a disgrace, but it his hardly new.  Democrats have routinely supported increased pay for troops and benefits for vets over Republican opposition.  I suppose that in the Republican view, our vets are just part of the 47% they disdain.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to crow about how they and they alone support our troops, but in RepubliSpeak, that only means spending billions to greedy war contractors.  Republicans have no concern for the men and women who have put their lives on the line to serve our nation.  If they cared, they would not have done this! […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}