{"id":39266,"date":"2014-01-12T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39266"},"modified":"2014-01-12T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T13:41:29","slug":"draft-dodger-harry-reid-blocks-attempt-to-restore-vet-pension-cola-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39266","title":{"rendered":"Draft dodger Harry Reid blocks attempt to restore vet pension COLA cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast this with the previous blog post I wrote about Democrats worried about Obama&#8217;s proposal to cut the rate of growth of Social Security pensions. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/senate-democrats-block-amendment-to-restore-military-pensions\/\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) \u201cfilled the amendment tree\u201d on Thursday, ending debate and blocking any Republican amendments to a bill to extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Ayotte\u2019s measure, which would repeal cuts to military pensions by ending a loophole in the tax code that allows illegal immigrants to receive the Additional Child Tax Credit. Her attempt to get a vote failed 42-54, with only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), voting with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day when a common sense amendment to responsibly pay for legislation that helps struggling Americans, repeals unfair military retirement benefits and reduces the deficit can\u2019t even get a vote in the Senate,\u201d Ayotte said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ayotte offered her plan, the \u201cKeeping Our Promise to Our Military Heroes Act\u2019\u2019 (S. 1869), as an amendment to the UI bill. The measure would require a Social Security number in order for an individual to receive the Additional Child Tax Credit. Ayotte\u2019s office said the bill would save approximately $20 billion over 10 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So can we expect Dianne Feinstein to stick up for veterans in the Senate? This is me not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Harry Reid is a draft dodger using the Left&#8217;s own definition as applied to Dick Cheney, since Reid and Chaney both spent their draftable years going to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast this with the previous blog post I wrote about Democrats worried about Obama&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Draft dodger Harry Reid blocks attempt to restore vet pension COLA cuts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39266\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Draft dodger Harry Reid blocks attempt to restore vet pension COLA cuts<\/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-39266","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\/39266","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=39266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}