[VIDEO] 3/5 Cut National Security Working Group

[Harald]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BrJSi_Xrk

Good stuff

[tsai3904]

Press release:


Sen. Paul today introduced an amendment to S. Res. 64 that would strike funding for an annual $700,000 slush fund that allocates additional staff funding to nine Member and Leadership offices under the guise of the Senate National Security Working Group. The Working Group was created in 1985 to provide the Senate with observers to treaty negotiations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Working Group was extended, yet there is little evidence of any work done by the group. In fact, there is no record of this group meeting within the last three years.

In the wake of sequestration, this amendment would save up to $2.8 million over a four year period. Special treatment should not be given to nine Senate Offices when the rest of the federal government is facing sequester cuts. It is time for our elected officials to lead by example and stop spending as though we have possession of a credit card that we don't have to pay for.

The amendment failed passage with a bipartisan vote of 44-53.

http://paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=723

He got 12 Democrats to vote for the amendment (a lot of them are up for re-election):

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00029

[Harald]

Why I am not surprised:


The amendment failed passage with a bipartisan vote of 44-53.

[Harald]

Wait. I am surprised a little.

McCain for it. Rubio against it. Split in the hawks ranks?

[tsai3904]

Wait. I am surprised a little.

McCain for it. Rubio against it. Split in the hawks ranks?

Probably depends on which Senators are members of the working group. I can't find which Senators are members though.

[Harald]

Also, I think, reflexively people are afraid to vote for cutting funding to something that sounds so good and important: National Security Working Group