{"id":195578,"date":"2008-06-29T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/29\/usaf-may-have-improperly-lobbied-congress-on-brac\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T14:42:00","slug":"usaf-may-have-improperly-lobbied-congress-on-brac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/29\/usaf-may-have-improperly-lobbied-congress-on-brac\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF May Have Improperly Lobbied Congress on BRAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that they lobbied Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Daniel Inouye (D-HI) to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/the-executive\/usaf-ordered-to-probe-lobbying-2008-06-25.html\">insert language allowing the services to veto joint bases decisions made by the commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, it looks like the USAF&#8217;s real core competency is gaming the federal budget process.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, it looks like the USAF then used this language to blackmail the other services at joint bases more control and more of the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that they lobbied Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Daniel Inouye (D-HI) to insert language allowing the services to veto joint bases decisions made by the commission. Once again, it looks like the USAF&#8217;s real core competency is gaming the federal budget process. According to the article, it looks like the USAF then used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,970,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corruption","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195578"}],"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=195578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}