Reid wants quick work on defense bill(Frist wants theocracy bills first)

[Robbien]

The Senate Democratic leader said Monday that he hoped the Senate wasn’t on a course to repeat last year’s problems completing work on the annual defense budget.

Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, speaking to a Congress just returned from a two-week break to face five weeks of legislative business before the next scheduled break, is referring to the months of starts and stops the hampered work last year on the 2006 defense authorization bill. The bill was pulled from the Senate floor in July 2005 when Republican leaders instead decided to debate on a bill relaxing gun control.

With the Senate expected this week to take up the wartime supplemental funding bill and with the Senate Armed Services Committee expected to write its version of the 2007 defense authorization bill next week, Reid said he worries that the legislative agenda being planned to Senate Republicans does not seem to make defense-related legislation a priority.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has talked about scheduling votes banning gay marriage, eliminating estate taxes and changing the U.S. Constitution to ban burning of the American flag, all hot-button issues for the Republican political base. Reid, however, said those issues were not mentioned to him once as he traveled Nevada during the two-week break.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1727427.php

[Ilsa]

1. This s the message we need to get out there: that Repukes have no

interest in solving real problems. They are more interested in minding your spiritual matters.

When I posted the South Carolina preparing to ban sex toys story at another site, the facetious comments were essentially that everything must be really great in SC if that is their most pressing issue. People really do "get it".