Obama To Sign Defense Bill With Guantanamo Restrictions

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

Tue Nov 10, 2015 4:03pm EST

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping defense policy bill on Tuesday and the White House said President Barack Obama will sign it, despite provisions making it more difficult to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Senate vote was 91-3 in favor of the measure, which authorizes $607 billion in defense spending and includes $5 billion in cuts excluded from an earlier version vetoed by Obama.

The president had objected to the previous bill both because of the Guantanamo language and because it eased military spending cuts without also loosening restrictions on domestic spending.

The defense bill, which was revised to reflect a two-year budget deal Obama signed into law last week that resolved the spending dispute, easily passed the House last week.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/10/us-usa-defense-congress-idUSKCN0SZ27H20151110#TVTbXlTmWKODUSLU.97

[randys1]

1. When it comes time to give money to billionaires, like this, there is a consensus.

When it comes time to feed people literally dying from starvation, we have to debate till the cows come home

an example of why you canNOT be a xtian and a republican

[yallerdawg]

2. Democracy.

Such a pain.

The House passed the NDAA by 370-58. That margin, like the Senate vote, far exceeds the two-thirds majority to override a veto.

[loyalsister]

5. We have GOT to work hard on our local races

Congressional seats are of paramount importance. When it comes to the senate, now is the time to flip it and get a number of seats that can function as a majority.

The 10 Most Vulnerable Senators

http://atr.rollcall.com/10-vulnerable-senators-2016/

[yallerdawg]

7. 3 senators voted against this bill.

The defense budget is the pork we don't have anymore.

The 2-year financing agreement passed in last weeks equalizes defense and domestic spending increases! This was the compromise!

This is quid pro quo pork - this for that!

Freakin' democracy!

[loyalsister]

9. I get that

My point is that anytime we see a bill passed with a veto proof majority, we need to remember what that may mean for a future president. If we want our president to have power we need to give him a congress that will back him up.

[tecelote]

4. Cheney's legacy lives on.

He may have left the White House but we still fight his wars and Halliburton still profits from murder in our name.

[Fast Walker 52]

6. of course he did, because there is no bigger welfare queen than the Pentagon

and who cares about those poor tortured innocent men at Guantanamo?

War is an evil racket... etc

[GoneFishin]

8. The Republicans and a bunch of right wing democrats have turned the U.S. into a banana republic.

80 innocent people in a fucking hellhole for over 10 years and paid for with taxpayer money. And we can't find enough balls in Washington to make a pair, or a spine to attach them to.

Where is the outrage about pissing away taxpayer money to confine a bunch of innocent people? Fucking crickets.

A bunch of fucking cowards.

[cstanleytech]

13. I agree with most of what you said. nt

[KoKo]

10. He Promised to Close "Gitmo"....Maybe Next Year?

[KoKo]

12. He often makes compromises like that. He doesn't want Govt. Shutdown

for Hillary's Election Year.

But, I'm sure the Repubs this time next year will be at their Evil Doings...and then we shall see what Obama does once the New President has been elected....and he is making his Transition Preparations.

[cstanleytech]

15. No I suspect its more like he cannot justify a shutdown to the majority of the american

for a handful of people.
It sucks ass but this is the way things are going to be as long the republicans keep control congress and the courts.

[Owl]

14. Disgusting