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Washington D.C.- Congressman Jeb Hensarling (TX-05), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, issued the following statement after the House barely passed H.R. 1591, The Iraq War Supplemental.
“This is without a doubt one of the worst bills to come to the floor since I have served in Congress.
“America take notice, for this is the Democrat version of fiscal responsibility and reform. Though this is a troop funding bill, the Democrats prohibit spending on a Marine Corps unit deployed in Iraq beyond 210 days but spend $219 million on peanuts, shrimp, and spinach. This is how the Democrat Majority defines emergency spending? I’m told that if you look deep enough, the entire recipe for Kung Pao shrimp can be found in this bill.
“Their bill creates 435 commanders-in-chief, it attempts to micromanage the war, it chokes off funding for America’s troops, threatens our national security and contains billions in unrelated spending that wraps old fashioned pork in the American flag. With this bill, the Democrat majority has transformed pay-as-you-go to pork-as-you-go.
“Thankfully, the founding fathers – in their infinite wisdom – created a system of government to prevent terrible pieces of legislation like this from becoming law. Thus, for all of the promises of money – and then threats – made by the Democrat leadership to their own members this week – this bill will go nowhere. In a month, we will again debate ‘emergency spending’ legislation and this time it will be clean.
“The focus of the Iraq War Supplemental Bill ought to be on one thing: supporting our troops and securing our homeland from the threat our nation faces from radical Islam. The Democrat’s slow bleed strategy will harm our troops, harm our country and should be defeated. The cost of fighting this war is extremely high, but the cost of losing it is higher.”
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