The House of Representatives failed to muster the 2/3 votes necessary to over ride Bush's veto of the Labor/HHS FY 2008 appropriations bill. The vote taken Thursday night, was 277 to 141 to over ride, just barely short of the 2/3 needed. This means that federally funded programs under this bill - including the Ryan White Program, CDC HIV Prevention, SAMHSA, and NIH - will all remain flat funded at the FY 2007 level through a Continuing Resolution (CR) process, until further action is taken. At this point, Congress will need to draft a new bill. Congressional leaders may be looking at a new bill concept that would roughly cut in half the increases they proposed in the vetoed bill..
On the HOPWA front, both houses have now approved the bill (which is under the Transportation/HUD accounts) at 300.1 million, which represents an increase. However, Bush has threatened to veto the Transportation/HUD bill as well. If he does, an over ride will be attempted
with the receipt of the above news, i started to wonder about my responsibility in this completely disappointing turn of events. i realize i haven't made any effort in deciding about a change of leadership for the country and how i can facilitate any movement in that direction. there are a couple of candidates that i would be happy with, but i haven't made any real decision, i haven't done any real research, and i haven't made any real effort to commit to the idea of changing of the guard. i have been living in a state of numb as i have felt i have been led down a path of deceipt, incredible gaul, and blatant incompetency. rather than look at the truth, i have been happy to feign blindnes. this needs to change.
"One Thing"
Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line
[Chorus:]
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something
I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time
Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds
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1 comment:
What do the presidential candidates have to do with the failure of the bill?
I think it feeds into the perception: "Politicians--they're all the same" when in fact there is a huge diffeence between them.
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