Chairman removes health care provision from defense measure

[The Straight Story]

Chairman removes health care provision from defense measure

By Megan Scully, CongressDaily
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has employed a rarely used authority to strike a provision in the committee-passed $441.6 billion defense authorization bill that would have opened the military's Tricare health care system to all National Guard members and reservists.

The provision, one of only a handful of Democrat victories during the 14-hour markup last week, would push the military's mandatory spending levels beyond those allowed under the fiscal 2006 budget resolution. The bill is scheduled for floor consideration Wednesday.

"I have consulted the chairman of the Budget Committee on this matter, and he informs me that if the bill is brought forward to the floor in violation of the Budget Act, he will exercise his prerogative to raise the applicable point of order and thus prevent its consideration on the floor," Hunter wrote in a Friday memo to the committee.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0505/052305cdpm1.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Why does Duncan Hunter hate the military?

Start uising this folks

[Nite Owl]

3. This is what tv ads

should be used for, the only way we get them exposed for the traitors that they really are.

[atreides1]

2. And We Are Surprised

WHY?????

This has become the standard, the Dems think they've won something, only to have it pulled out and tossed into file 13.

This is how the Repubs really support the troops!!!!!!