{"id":65877,"date":"2016-05-19T10:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65877"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:06:46","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65877","title":{"rendered":"House wants a 2.1% pay raise, White House threatens veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/05\/18\/ndaa-house-passage-democratic-objections\/84573238\/\">Military Times<\/a>, the House voted almost along party lines to fully fund the Pentagon by a margin of 277-147 to fund a 2.1 percent pay raise to the troops, overhaul the military medical system, and to protect the A-10 close air support aircraft from the Air Force. The Democrats in the House were more focused on the really important issues, they say;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They objected when language was dropped from the bill that would have required women to register for the Selective Service System, a provision that has support in the Senate, and to wording that states federal contractors cannot be discriminated against on the basis of religion. That provision, critics say, legitimizes discrimination against gay and bisexual employees.<\/p>\n<p>House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith, D-Wash., said those points of conflict forced him to vote against the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have misused the rules process to avoid votes on women\u2019s equality, labor laws, and taxpayer-funded discrimination against LGBT individuals, while adding further restrictions on transfers from the Guantanamo detention facility, cutting funds for nuclear nonproliferation, and adopting a range of other highly problematic provisions,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House has threatened to veto the bill, mostly because the bill gives the troops a larger pay raise than the president thinks they earned. Never mind that their pay checks haven&#8217;t kept pace with inflation for the last six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Military Times, the House voted almost along party lines to fully fund the &hellip; <a title=\"House wants a 2.1% pay raise, White House threatens veto\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65877\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House wants a 2.1% pay raise, White House threatens veto<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877","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=65877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}