Speaker Boehner Sets Date For Vote On New Speaker | Obama Threatens Veto Of 2016 Defense Bill
Today in Washington, D.C. - Oct 5, 2014:
Supremes Are Back: The Supreme Court begins its new session today. There are several high-profile cases already on the docket involving the use of affirmative action in college admissions, public sector union dues and voting rights.
The high court is also expected to take cases involving state restrictions on abortion (the Texas law that closed several Planned Parenthood clinics) and another challenge to Obamacare's contraception mandate.
The House will reconvene proforma at 2 PM today for a few minutes. The next meeting of the House is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on October 6, 2015. However, there are no scheduled roll call votes until 6:30 PM.
Today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that members of the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on their next Speaker on the House floor on October 29th. He said, “When I made my announcement last month, I said that I would continue to serve through the month of October. After consulting with my colleagues, I am announcing today that all members of the House of Representatives will vote to elect their next Speaker during a floor vote on October 29th.
“On Thursday, October 8th, the members of the House Republican Conference will meet to elect our nominee for Speaker. After the new Speaker is elected on October 29th, the members of our Conference will select the rest of their leadership team. The new Speaker will establish the date for these additional leadership elections. This new process will ensure House Republicans have a strong, unified team to lead our conference and focus on the American people’s priorities.”
Also, Speaker Boehner today introduced bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the groundbreaking Washington, DC school choice program. The Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act, H.R. 10, reauthorizes the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides low-income students, many of whom attend persistently underperforming public schools, with the opportunity to receive a scholarship to attend a private school of their parent’s choice. The program was established in 2004 during Boehner’s tenure as chairman of the Education & the Workforce Committee, and renewed in 2011 despite the Obama administration’s efforts to eliminate it altogether. H.R. 10 improves and reauthorizes the program through 2021.
Since its inception, Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) students have had consistently high graduation rates, including 90 percent for last year’s 12th grade students. In addition, for the last school year, 88 percent of OSP students went on to enroll in a two or four-year college/university, and 85 percent of OSP parents were happy with their children’s school. Of this year’s OSP students, 87.4 percent would otherwise be enrolled at a school that the government has identified as in need of improvement.
Original co-sponsors of the SOAR Act include Representatives Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), John Kline (R-MN), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Luke Messer (R-IN), and Todd Rokita (R-IN).
The Senate will reconvene at 4 PM today. Following an hour of morning business, the Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of Dale Drozd to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California.
At 5:30, the Senate will vote on confirmation of the Drozd nomination.
Tomorrow, a vote is expected on cloture on the conference report for the Fiscal Year 2016 Defense authorization bill, H.R. 1735. The Defense authorization bill (H.R. 1735) lays out Pentagon programs, funding, and military policy. This bill has passed both houses before on a bipartisan basis, but President Obama has threatened to veto it. Senate Democrats have already filibustered the Defense appropriations bill and the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill. Will Senate Democrats filibuster even this bipartisan bill for our military?
Over the weekend, The Washington Post editors wrote, “American presidents rarely veto national defense authorization bills, since they are, well, vital to national security. . . . As expressed by White House spokesman Josh Earnest, then, President Obama’s threat to veto the fiscal 2016 defense bill that emerged from a House-Senate conference committee and passed the House with bipartisan support on Oct. 1 is a bit unusual: The rationale is procedural.
The $612 billion bill designates $89.2 billion of ‘overseas contingency’ funds — that is, money for warfighting — as regular Department of Defense budget authority (plus nuclear-weapons-related Energy Department programs), so the Pentagon can escape mandatory ‘sequestration’ budget cuts. ‘That’s an irresponsible way to fund our national defense priorities,’ Mr. Earnest declared.”
As The Post editors point out, this is an important bipartisan bill that the president is threatening to veto. The Hill notes, “The House passed the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, setting up a veto showdown with the Obama administration. The 270-156 vote comes after the House and Senate Armed Services committees reached agreement on a final conference report earlier this week. . . . The bill would authorize $612 billion for the Defense Department — the same amount the White House has requested . . . . The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this year on a bipartisan basis. It authorizes Pentagon activities and programs, and has passed for 53 years in a row.”
And yet White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeated the veto threat today. With the situation in Syria continuing to deteriorate, Russian aggression manifesting itself in Ukraine and beyond, Islamic State and the Taliban resurgent in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively, and China testing its neighbors, is now the time to be leaving the our military without critical legislation directing defense policy?
Absolutely not, as The Post editors argue. “What matters now, however, is that the Pentagon have certainty and predictability in a time of mounting tension in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The bill’s $612 billion price tag is roughly the total Mr. Obama himself requested. . . . Refusing to sign this bill would make history, but not in a good way. Mr. Obama should let it become law . . . .”
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Supremes Are Back: The Supreme Court begins its new session today. There are several high-profile cases already on the docket involving the use of affirmative action in college admissions, public sector union dues and voting rights.
The high court is also expected to take cases involving state restrictions on abortion (the Texas law that closed several Planned Parenthood clinics) and another challenge to Obamacare's contraception mandate.
The House will reconvene proforma at 2 PM today for a few minutes. The next meeting of the House is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. on October 6, 2015. However, there are no scheduled roll call votes until 6:30 PM.
Today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that members of the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on their next Speaker on the House floor on October 29th. He said, “When I made my announcement last month, I said that I would continue to serve through the month of October. After consulting with my colleagues, I am announcing today that all members of the House of Representatives will vote to elect their next Speaker during a floor vote on October 29th.
“On Thursday, October 8th, the members of the House Republican Conference will meet to elect our nominee for Speaker. After the new Speaker is elected on October 29th, the members of our Conference will select the rest of their leadership team. The new Speaker will establish the date for these additional leadership elections. This new process will ensure House Republicans have a strong, unified team to lead our conference and focus on the American people’s priorities.”
Also, Speaker Boehner today introduced bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the groundbreaking Washington, DC school choice program. The Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act, H.R. 10, reauthorizes the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides low-income students, many of whom attend persistently underperforming public schools, with the opportunity to receive a scholarship to attend a private school of their parent’s choice. The program was established in 2004 during Boehner’s tenure as chairman of the Education & the Workforce Committee, and renewed in 2011 despite the Obama administration’s efforts to eliminate it altogether. H.R. 10 improves and reauthorizes the program through 2021.
Since its inception, Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) students have had consistently high graduation rates, including 90 percent for last year’s 12th grade students. In addition, for the last school year, 88 percent of OSP students went on to enroll in a two or four-year college/university, and 85 percent of OSP parents were happy with their children’s school. Of this year’s OSP students, 87.4 percent would otherwise be enrolled at a school that the government has identified as in need of improvement.
Original co-sponsors of the SOAR Act include Representatives Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), John Kline (R-MN), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Luke Messer (R-IN), and Todd Rokita (R-IN).
The Senate will reconvene at 4 PM today. Following an hour of morning business, the Senate will begin consideration of the nomination of Dale Drozd to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California.
At 5:30, the Senate will vote on confirmation of the Drozd nomination.
Tomorrow, a vote is expected on cloture on the conference report for the Fiscal Year 2016 Defense authorization bill, H.R. 1735. The Defense authorization bill (H.R. 1735) lays out Pentagon programs, funding, and military policy. This bill has passed both houses before on a bipartisan basis, but President Obama has threatened to veto it. Senate Democrats have already filibustered the Defense appropriations bill and the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill. Will Senate Democrats filibuster even this bipartisan bill for our military?
Over the weekend, The Washington Post editors wrote, “American presidents rarely veto national defense authorization bills, since they are, well, vital to national security. . . . As expressed by White House spokesman Josh Earnest, then, President Obama’s threat to veto the fiscal 2016 defense bill that emerged from a House-Senate conference committee and passed the House with bipartisan support on Oct. 1 is a bit unusual: The rationale is procedural.
The $612 billion bill designates $89.2 billion of ‘overseas contingency’ funds — that is, money for warfighting — as regular Department of Defense budget authority (plus nuclear-weapons-related Energy Department programs), so the Pentagon can escape mandatory ‘sequestration’ budget cuts. ‘That’s an irresponsible way to fund our national defense priorities,’ Mr. Earnest declared.”
As The Post editors point out, this is an important bipartisan bill that the president is threatening to veto. The Hill notes, “The House passed the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, setting up a veto showdown with the Obama administration. The 270-156 vote comes after the House and Senate Armed Services committees reached agreement on a final conference report earlier this week. . . . The bill would authorize $612 billion for the Defense Department — the same amount the White House has requested . . . . The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this year on a bipartisan basis. It authorizes Pentagon activities and programs, and has passed for 53 years in a row.”
And yet White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeated the veto threat today. With the situation in Syria continuing to deteriorate, Russian aggression manifesting itself in Ukraine and beyond, Islamic State and the Taliban resurgent in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively, and China testing its neighbors, is now the time to be leaving the our military without critical legislation directing defense policy?
Absolutely not, as The Post editors argue. “What matters now, however, is that the Pentagon have certainty and predictability in a time of mounting tension in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The bill’s $612 billion price tag is roughly the total Mr. Obama himself requested. . . . Refusing to sign this bill would make history, but not in a good way. Mr. Obama should let it become law . . . .”
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Russia could kill defense budget.
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Because it was not his recommendation ? Wait it was his . OK he's nuts I agree !
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