{"id":38999,"date":"2013-12-24T06:57:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38999"},"modified":"2013-12-24T06:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:57:51","slug":"murray-disowns-pension-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38999","title":{"rendered":"Murray disowns pension cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we read Paul Ryan while he justified his bill to cut the growth of military pensions. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/patty-murray-military-pension-cut-101313.html?hp=t3_3\">Politico<\/a> reports that his partner in stupidity, Patty Murray, is backing away from the pension cut;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Murray\u2019s response: The pension cut isn\u2019t final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wrote this bill in a way that will allow two years before this change is implemented so that Democrats and Republicans can keep working to either improve this provision or find smarter savings elsewhere,\u201d she said on the Senate floor this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words,\u201d she added, \u201cwe can and we will look at other, hopefully better ways to change this policy going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her stance provides a major opening for opponents of the cut to work to get it tossed out or replaced with alternate savings \u2014 an effort that could weaken the budget deal and force vulnerable senators to continue defending their support for an agreement that would provide sequester relief for federal agencies at the expense of veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess she&#8217;s leaving Ryan hanging by himself. Murray has always been good when it comes to veterans&#8217; issues, considering her party affiliation, so, it&#8217;s no surprise that she&#8217;d be one of the first to cave from the pressure of VSOs in recent days. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chock Block for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we read Paul Ryan while he justified his bill to cut the growth of military &hellip; <a title=\"Murray disowns pension cut\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38999\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murray disowns pension cut<\/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":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999","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=38999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}