{"id":13469,"date":"2009-08-11T05:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2009-08-11T05:33:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:33:20","slug":"congress-scraps-plans-for-new-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"Congress scraps plans for new jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing massive opposition on their healthcare plan, I suppose Congress doesn&#8217;t feel it can take too many more hits on their other irresponsible spending plans. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/08\/10\/house-leaders-drop-plans-buy-fancy-jets\/\">Fox News<\/a>, they&#8217;ve scrapped plans to force the Pentagon to buy four more jets to ferry them around in luxury;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the Department of Defense does not want these aircraft, they will be eliminated from the bill,&#8221; said Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the panel that approved the additional spending.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supported the decision, which was expected to face resistance in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s one less aircraft that&#8217;ll land at the John Murtha International Airport to No-where, I suppose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Murtha denies that the money was added to give lawmakers a nicer ride when traveling with the military, as lawmakers often do to visit troops overseas or for security reasons. In a statement released Monday, Murtha said that the planes are primarily used by executive branch officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yuh-huh &#8211; that&#8217;s why the Pentagon was being forced to buy eight after they said they only needed four. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing massive opposition on their healthcare plan, I suppose Congress doesn&#8217;t feel it can take too &hellip; <a title=\"Congress scraps plans for new jets\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13469\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress scraps plans for new jets<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,22,84,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-john-murtha","category-military-issues","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}