Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Of course they didn't vote for it because it was cleverly connected to a larger bill that wasted billions of dollars on pork.....

With the recent terrorist attempt to bring down a U.S. airliner, naturally the Republicans are doing everything they can to use the event for political gain -- but let's not forget:

......Republicans have cast votes against the key TSA funding measure, the 2010 appropriation bill for the Department of Homeland Security contained, which included funding for the TSA, including for explosives detection systems and other aviation security measures. In the June 24 vote in the House, leading Republicans including John Boehner, Pete Hoekstra, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan voted against the bill, amid a procedural dispute over the appropriations process, a Democrat points out. A full 108 Republicans voted against the conference version, including Boehner, Boehner, Hoekstra, Pence, Michelle Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Darrell Issa, and Joe Wilson.

The conference bill included more than $4 billion for "screening operations," including $1.1 billion in funding for explosives detection systems, including $778 million for buying and installing the systems. [ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/GOP_blame_at_TSA.html# ]