Sens. Chuck and Hillary have good news for New York, and they told all about it yesterday in a joint news release.
New York and five other high risk cities “will receive an additional $35 million” in anti-terrorism funding collectively under a bill that will be voted on by the Democratic-controlled Congress this week.
What New York Democrats Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't say in their media missive is that the bill containing the promised money is a veto magnet -- and has virtually no chance of being penned into law.
President George W. Bush has vowed to reject Congress’ $124.2 billion supplemental war spending bill because it includes an Oct. 1 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
Martin C. Evans
The bill was drafted primarily to provide about $100 billion to supplement the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
But several other spending measures were added on, including $6.9 billion to help gulf states recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $5.1 billion to help pay for medical care for troops returning from the battlefront and $3.5 billion in drought relief for farmers and ranchers.
By adding politically popular items to what began as a war-spending bill, Democratic congressional leaders hope to force the president to share some of the blame Democrats might take for not speeding a war spending bill through the approval process.
The White House did not return a call for comment yesterday.
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Werent the Democrats wailing about high gas prices and how the Republicans were responsible because they were in power? Wow it has gotten really silent on that point now that the Democrats are in power and the Gas prices have smashed through the recors with no end in site. I bet Chucky will run to the nearest microphone shortly and announce some committee that will study the same thing the last 10 committees studied that turn up nothing but spend my tax dollars.
Chuck this is your mess now, you are killing the middle class with those high gas prices so you will be held responsible. Talk is cheap when you dont have to act on it.