President of the United States use them as a political bargaining chip to force congress to comply with his domestic agenda. The bottom line for me is that our troops deserve than that and thats the reason i support this bipartisan budget act of 2014. It increases it stops the cuts in defense. It increases the money going to our troops, and it prevents them from being used as a bargaining chip in the future because it sets the military budget for fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2017 so that that is decided they cant be used as leverage for some other agenda. I think that is the sort of stability and predictability they need and they deserve. And i think the great question, madam speaker, is if not this, then what . We know that this budget agreement at least comes close to meeting what the president has asked for on defense and comes close to the congressional budget within 5 billion. Thats not enough money to repair the damage that has been done over the past five years, but its in t
There is a lot of vitriol and also not just for candidates, but even voters who participate on social media, it is a deterrent, because people are attacked and really shut down. There are people who it is almost like they are not allowed to express their views. If someone takes a opposing the, an opposing view the , discussion is really shut down. That is unfortunate. That hinders the ability for to be a platform for discourse. I am more concerned about that then siphoning people often to their own camps. What is the reward for trying to express a view and having a discussion if you are going to have that kind of response . It is worse for women because of the types of attacks and can lead to. In terms of advice, you have two options. Either you engage or you dont engage. If you decide to engage, do you types ofge those commenters or not . I think engagement is always better for all the reasons were talking about today. If you stay silent or absent, people are talking about you on soci
United states and sets a path to a responsible appropriations process this year and next. Since the beginning of this years appropriations process, democrats have called for relief fl damaging austerity budget level caps so congress can invest in our nations future. Unfortunately the majoritys budget resolution and appropriation bills would have strangled Economic Growth and not met our nations need with cuts to pell grants that help families Pay College Tuition and Law Enforcement grants, for example. The list goes on and on, from the start of the appropriations process, i urged my majority colleagues to negotiate reasonable spending caps that protect our economy and national priorities. Im pleased these talks finally happened and resulted in this bipartisan package that provides an additional 40 billion for defense, 40 billion for nondefense over two years. These investments are critical. Upon its passage, i look forward to working together in a similarly responsible manner to reach