Kuhl, Reynolds promise to cut $1 billion of aid to NYS
The Buffalo News has a new editorial up. According to them, local congressmen Reynolds and Kuhl have promised to sustain a Bush veto of this year’s domestic appropriations bill.
The editorial:
The House passed an appropriations bill in July containing essential funding increases for programs critical to caring for our children, training workers and protecting the health of the most vulnerable people in our communities. And the 276-140 vote was on a bipartisan basis, with 53 Republicans aligning with the Democratic congressional leadership.
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Three members of New York’s congressional delegation, including Reps. Thomas Reynolds, RClarence, Randy Kuhl, R-Hammondsport, and Peter King, R-Long Island, have pledged to vote to sustain a presidential veto, and they appear to have enough support to prevail.
According to a new Fiscal Policy Institute analysis, a budget based on the president’s proposal would mean a $1 billion cut in federal aid other than Medicaid to New York State and its local governments in 2008. New York’s funding for vocational and adult education would be cut by 40 percent, clean and safe drinking water by 22 percent, low-income energy assistance by 19 percent and community development block grants by 21 percent.
It’s not just the war. Pistol Packin’ Randy and Tom “I covered for Foley” Reynolds vote with Bush 85% and 91% of the time, respectively. Just saying.
And its not just the war that Pistol Packin’ Randy and his colleagues on the “R” side have brought us … they have brought us job insecurity, health insecurity, food insecurity, toy insecurity (our toys are now dangerous), environmental insecurity, global warming insecurity, freedom of speech insecurity, bridge insecurity, mine-collapse insecurity, underground-pipe-explosion insecurity, CIA-undercover-agent-outing insecurity, military draft insecurity, wall-of-separation-between-church-and-state insecurity and on and on. The damage the “R”s have done to this country is huge beyond anything I could have imagined six years ago.
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