{"id":195055,"date":"2008-07-31T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/senate-chicken-on-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:02:00","slug":"senate-chicken-on-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/senate-chicken-on-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Chicken on Funding Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans, having a phony issue, the kind that they like best, that they think that they can run with, offshore drilling, have vowed to block everything until they get a vote on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like the Dems are calling their bluff, and daring them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/31\/senate-gop-set-to-block-t_n_116087.html\">block a troop funding bill<\/a> which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 3.9% across-the-board pay raise for military personnel<\/li>\n<li>A funding increase for research into traumatic brain injury treatment<\/li>\n<li>Funding increase fortroop suicide prevention efforts<\/li>\n<li>A $26 billion for the Defense Health Program<\/li>\n<li>A $500 million for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why does the Republican party hate the troops?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans, having a phony issue, the kind that they like best, that they think that they can run with, offshore drilling, have vowed to block everything until they get a vote on the issue. Well, it looks like the Dems are calling their bluff, and daring them to block a troop funding bill which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,1006,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-military","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}