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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:14 AM Mar 2013

House passes bill shielding shipbuilding from deep cuts

http://www.dailypress.com/news/breaking/dp-nws-shipyard-seq-house-vote-20130307,0,6529584.story

House passes bill shielding shipbuilding from deep cuts
By Michael Welles Shapiro, mwshapiro@dailypress.com | 757-247-4744
March 7, 2013

A bill that shelters a string of shipbuilding programs from budget cuts breezed through the House Wednesday as a Republican majority was joined by more than 50 Democrats.

The $982 billion bill would keep the government going through the end of the year, shift billions toward Pentagon programs and give the Navy more flexibility in dealing with across-the-board sequester cuts.

Democrats who voted for the measure expressed serious reservations.

Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News, said the legislation would protect jobs in the region by maintaining funding for ship maintenance and construction projects. Still, he said, it falls short by not addressing cuts to programs for children and the uninsured.

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House passes bill shielding shipbuilding from deep cuts (Original Post) unhappycamper Mar 2013 OP

Grrr Nictuku Mar 2013 #1

"So are we now going to see the military shielded but nothing else? " unhappycamper Mar 2013 #2

Yup. Uniparty consensus to just restore the war budget. Warren Stupidity Mar 2013 #3

This was done to insulate the Littoral class ships: ZOB Mar 2013 #4

Only tea party legislation to be considered until 014 Skink Mar 2013 #5

Nictuku

(3,913 posts)

1. Grrr

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:17 AM

Mar 2013

The only good thing about the sequester (austerity), was the military cuts. So are we now going to see the military shielded but nothing else?

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)

2. "So are we now going to see the military shielded but nothing else? "

Reply to Nictuku (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:21 AM

Mar 2013

That's what 'Democratic' and Republican warmongers want.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

3. Yup. Uniparty consensus to just restore the war budget.

Reply to unhappycamper (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:28 AM

Mar 2013

ZOB

(151 posts)

4. This was done to insulate the Littoral class ships:

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:53 AM

Mar 2013

"The Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is not only staggeringly overpriced and chronically unreliable but — even if it were to work perfectly — cannot match the combat power of similar sized foreign warships costing only a fraction as much. Let’s take a deep dive and try to figure out why."

http://nation.time.com/2012/10/05/the-navys-new-class-of-warships-big-bucks-little-bang/

Skink

(10,122 posts)

5. Only tea party legislation to be considered until 014

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 11:01 AM

Mar 2013

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