Senate moves ahead on defense bill facing veto threat, The Senate confused advanced Tuesday on a sweeping, $612 billion aegis activity bill admitting a presidential veto blackmail stemming from beyond annual disputes that accept bedridden Washington.
The vote was 73-26, 13 votes added than all-important to breach any filibuster. The Senate is accepted to canyon the admeasurement Wednesday and forward it to Admiral Barack Obama.
The Obama administering has apprenticed Congress to add money for aegis and calm agencies aloft the banned imposed by the 2011 annual deal. The administering is aggressive to veto the aegis bill over how Congress added money — for the aggressive only.
Lawmakers added aegis spending by added a abstracted war-fighting annual with an added $38.3 billion. That annual is not accountable to the spending banned Congress and the White House agreed to in 2011.
The president's columnist secretary, Josh Earnest, alleged it an "irresponsible way to armamentarium our civic aegis priorities." Aegis Secretary Ash Carter has referred to the activity as a "gimmick" that "attempts to balk the catechism of all-embracing budgetary responsibility."
The aegis activity bill is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for added than a half-century, but Obama's veto blackmail jeopardizes the legislation.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., administrator of the Armed Services Committee, said it would be "shameful" for the admiral to veto the bill. Republicans accept argued that the admeasurement helps the troops, and it would be astigmatic to stop the legislation in ablaze of civic aegis threats.
"This is for the men and women of the military. This is to avert the nation. This would be one of the a lot of blameworthy acts of any president," McCain told reporters afterwards the vote.
The activity bill maintains restrictions on appointment alarm suspects out of the aggressive bastille at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, provides a 1.3 percent pay access to account members, authorizes baleful abetment to Ukraine armament angry Russian-backed rebels, extends the ban on ache to the CIA and authorizes the president's appeal of $715 actor to advice Iraqi armament action Islamic State militants.
The legislation aswell would:
—continue abutment for Afghanistan's aegis armament and requires the admiral to address on the risks associated with his plan to drawdown U.S. troops there. Obama appear in March that he would apathetic the troop abandonment and advance 9,800 through the end of this year in Afghanistan, area the Taliban this anniversary captured a cardinal arctic city.
—increases from 4,000 to 7,000 the amount of appropriate immigrant visas for Afghans who assisted U.S. cadre in Afghanistan and now are adverse threats.
—authorizes $600 actor for the abandoned U.S.-led affairs to alternation and accouter abstinent elements of the Syrian action force, but requires the aegis secretary to get aldermanic approval anniversary time he wants to use money for the program.
—restores allotment for the A-10 abutting air abutment even and prohibits its retirement.
—directs the aegis secretary to affair a activity to empower alone column commanders to adjudge whether associates of the armed armament can backpack government-issued or claimed blaze accoutrements at aggressive installations, assets centers and recruiting centers. This accouterment follows shootings in Little Rock, Arkansas; Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Fort Hood, Texas.
The vote was 73-26, 13 votes added than all-important to breach any filibuster. The Senate is accepted to canyon the admeasurement Wednesday and forward it to Admiral Barack Obama.
The Obama administering has apprenticed Congress to add money for aegis and calm agencies aloft the banned imposed by the 2011 annual deal. The administering is aggressive to veto the aegis bill over how Congress added money — for the aggressive only.
Lawmakers added aegis spending by added a abstracted war-fighting annual with an added $38.3 billion. That annual is not accountable to the spending banned Congress and the White House agreed to in 2011.
The president's columnist secretary, Josh Earnest, alleged it an "irresponsible way to armamentarium our civic aegis priorities." Aegis Secretary Ash Carter has referred to the activity as a "gimmick" that "attempts to balk the catechism of all-embracing budgetary responsibility."
The aegis activity bill is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for added than a half-century, but Obama's veto blackmail jeopardizes the legislation.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., administrator of the Armed Services Committee, said it would be "shameful" for the admiral to veto the bill. Republicans accept argued that the admeasurement helps the troops, and it would be astigmatic to stop the legislation in ablaze of civic aegis threats.
"This is for the men and women of the military. This is to avert the nation. This would be one of the a lot of blameworthy acts of any president," McCain told reporters afterwards the vote.
The activity bill maintains restrictions on appointment alarm suspects out of the aggressive bastille at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, provides a 1.3 percent pay access to account members, authorizes baleful abetment to Ukraine armament angry Russian-backed rebels, extends the ban on ache to the CIA and authorizes the president's appeal of $715 actor to advice Iraqi armament action Islamic State militants.
The legislation aswell would:
—continue abutment for Afghanistan's aegis armament and requires the admiral to address on the risks associated with his plan to drawdown U.S. troops there. Obama appear in March that he would apathetic the troop abandonment and advance 9,800 through the end of this year in Afghanistan, area the Taliban this anniversary captured a cardinal arctic city.
—increases from 4,000 to 7,000 the amount of appropriate immigrant visas for Afghans who assisted U.S. cadre in Afghanistan and now are adverse threats.
—authorizes $600 actor for the abandoned U.S.-led affairs to alternation and accouter abstinent elements of the Syrian action force, but requires the aegis secretary to get aldermanic approval anniversary time he wants to use money for the program.
—restores allotment for the A-10 abutting air abutment even and prohibits its retirement.
—directs the aegis secretary to affair a activity to empower alone column commanders to adjudge whether associates of the armed armament can backpack government-issued or claimed blaze accoutrements at aggressive installations, assets centers and recruiting centers. This accouterment follows shootings in Little Rock, Arkansas; Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Fort Hood, Texas.
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