Alex Jones’ Prison Planet.com » Obama: New Threats To Veto Defense/Hate Bill:
Rev. Ted Pike
Prisonplanet.com
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
On Monday, Pres. Obama struck back at powerful Democrat leaders in Congress who vow they’ll add $2 billion in funding to the defense appropriations bill for extra F-35 fighter engines. He said, “If Congress sends me a defense bill loaded with a bunch of pork, I will veto it.”
In July, the Senate added the federal hate crimes bill to the defense bill. If Obama vetoes the final defense bill, with hate bill attached, the hate bill will be destroyed, probably for this session of Congress.
Speaking to a convention of VFW veterans in Phoenix, Obama joined with many critics, including Sen. John McCain, in denouncing “indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions and make contractors rich.” He lashed out at “the special interests and their exotic projects that are years behind schedule and billions over budget.” These include “the entrenched lobby pushing weapons that even our military says it doesn’t want.” He rebuked lawmakers in Congress dedicated “to protect jobs back home building things we don’t need [with] a cost that we can’t afford.”
The AP article says, “Despite objections and veto threats from the White House, a $636 billion Pentagon spending bill was approved by a 400-30 vote in the House late last month"
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