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Showing Original Post only (View all)Meet The 40 SENATE REPUBLICANS Who BETRAYED VETERANS By Killing $1 Billion in JOBS [View all]
THE AXIS OF 40 WEASELS
Forty Republican members of the United States Senate betrayed veterans today when decided that denying President Obama a victory was more important than spending $1 billion to create jobs for vets. The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012 would have spent $1 billion over five years to put veterans to work tending to federal lands, and in the nations police and fire departments. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) based her plan of FDRs Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), but Republicans opposed the bill because they said there is no proof that it would work.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn claimed that there is no evidence that jobs for vets will work, What we have is a bill thats brought to the floor that has good intentions behind but shows the absolute laziness of congress in terms of really digging things out. issued their duplication report on the job training programs for veterans, four of them do exactly the same thing. None of them have a metric. So we dont know if theyre working, and we havent held a hearing to find out if theyre working. But what are we doing?
It doesnt matter to most Senate Republicans that the CCC put 2.5 million people to work. When confronted with an actual jobs program for Americas vets, including the 220,000 who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, the majority of Republicans claimed the plan, which was already offset, was too expensive. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) claimed that the bill would have pushed the VA over its spending limits, and gave forty Republicans a reason to vote no on jobs for vets.
The good news is that five Senate Republicans didnt join with their party. Sen. Scott Brown (MA), Dean Heller (NV) Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Maines Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe all voted with the Democrats, but in the end the bill fell two votes short of clearing the procedural hurdle, and died in the Senate.
Here are the 40 Republicans who voted to keep Americas veterans unemployed:
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lee (R-UT)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Mark Kirk and James Inhofe did not vote.
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Meet The 40 SENATE REPUBLICANS Who BETRAYED VETERANS By Killing $1 Billion in JOBS [View all]
Segami
Sep 2012
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Murray's been working on this for years. It would have been great. We must defeat the GOP!
freshwest
Sep 2012
#4
The result of the CCC can be seen decades later, it helped to preserve federal land, among others.
justice1
Sep 2012
#8
Rachel Maddow did. She called out the 4 rethugs who actually co-authored the bill then
LoisB
Sep 2012
#35
If veterans don't vote against every one of them, they have no self-respect.
Waiting For Everyman
Sep 2012
#13
Wanted to add that Burr is going to introduce this Bill's twin, so tired of their games!
SaveAmerica
Sep 2012
#31