Republicans Still Hate the Troops
Writing by on Wednesday, 27 of July , 2005 at 10:11 am
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Okay, here is the deal, the Senate is going to go on August vacation (Bush is going away for a month as well) and they want to get has much done as they can before the recess. The bill that is currently on the floor for debate is the $491 Billion Defense Spending bill. Now in the past this bill gets a lot of debate, a lot of amendments and so on. On average this bill sees about 4 weeks of debate, it has never received less than 2. So Yesterday Frist tried to end debate on the bill, a cloture vote, after only one week of debate.
Why you may ask? Well Bill wants to be able to put the bill aside so that they can move to the important task at hand, getting to the NRA'a top priority, a bill that would curb gun manufactures liability in lawsuits.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday moved the National Rifle Association’s top priority ahead of a $491 billion defense bill, setting up a vote on legislation to shield firearms manufacturers and dealers from lawsuits over gun crimes.
Completion of the defense bill, which the Senate had been debating for a week, will now be delayed until fall. Democrats were incensed.
“What’s happening on this gun liability bill is really despicable,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “To put that ahead of the defense bill, I think, is the most distorted priorities I can possibly conceive of.”
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Congress was on the verge of passing the bill a year ago when the NRA abruptly asked Craig, a member of the association’s board of directors, to withdraw it after gun opponents amended it to extend an expiring ban on assault weapons. A pickup of four GOP Senate seats in last November’s election emboldened gun rights supporters to try again, confident they can block Democratic attempts to attach an assault weapons ban.
The bill would prohibit lawsuits against the firearms industry for damages resulting form the unlawful use of a firearm or ammunition. Craig said such lawsuits are “predatory and aimed at bankrupting the firearms industry,” unfairly blaming dealers and manufacturers for the crimes of gun users.
So the troops are pushed aside for Special Interest groups…
For shame.
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