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House Passes Bill to Fund Troops, Keep Government Open
Washington,
Apr 7, 2011 -
U.S. Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon) issued the following statement after the House passed a short-term bill to fund the government for a week, fund the Department of Defense for the rest of the fiscal year, and cut an additional $12 billion in spending:
“Getting our military paid and funding the Department of Defense for the remainder of the year must be a priority and that is why I voted for this short-term bill.
It bothers me tremendously to think that some young 25-year-old is on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq risking his life and his wife and kids are not going to get paid while he is out there doing it.
This bill offers us the chance to take the military off the table while a long-term funding agreement is reached. I hope the Senate takes it up and passes it, that we can get a long-term agreement for the rest of this year, and that we can finally move on the work we are supposed to be doing already for fiscal year 2012. The House is scheduled to vote on the 2012 budget next week so we can stop spending money we don’t have and bring some fiscal sanity to Washington after several years without it.”
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