WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders were considering a plan Monday to reverse a recently passed cut to military pensions as the price for increasing the government's borrowing cap.House Republican aides said party leaders planned to float the idea to rank-and-file GOP lawmakers at a meeting in the Capitol on Monday evening. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be identified by name discussing strategy.It's not clear that the plan will fly with Democrats. Their votes would be needed to help pass the measure since some Republicans refuse to vote to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances. A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats will continue to insist that any debt limit legislation omit add-ons, even bipartisan proposals like repealing military pension cuts.White House spokesman Jay Carney sidestepped a question about whether President Barack Obama would sign debt ceiling legislation that included restoration of full benefits for military retirees, reiterating the White House position that Obama would not negotiate on raising the borrowing limit.
i'm particularly interested in this latest jab and abandonment of vets by the republicans as i receive a pension. tying it to debt ceiling didn't they get the email they already signed off on the expenditures they ok'd the spending now they want to again hold us hostage aiming at vets whom they claim to support
"I'm not going to get into a 'what if this were in the bill or that were in the bill,'" Carney told reporters. "Our position has not changed. It hasn't changed for a long, long time. We're not negotiating over Congress' responsibility to pay its bills."Carney added that "we're not going to pay ransom on behalf of the American people to Republicans in Congress so that Republicans in Congress fulfill their constitutional responsibilities."
truly the audacity of arrogance, they make a bill sign their names on the dotted line then want to stick up those of us who didn't get out out of going to war, it's not our bill or Pres.'s it'as theirs, don't do their job for 5 years and want to extort the Pres. so they can do one thing relative to their job description. Nov. 4th be aware and be there if you care
