House panel OKs defense bill, delays gay service

[2pac Shakur]

WASHINGTON – A House panel approved a defense bill early Thursday that would delay President Barack Obama's new policy allowing gays to serve openly in the military and limit the commander in chief's authority on slashing the nation's nuclear arsenal.
By a vote of 60-1, the House Armed Services Committee approved the broad, $553 billion defense blueprint that would provide a 1.6 percent increase in military pay, fund an array of aircraft, ships and submarines, slightly increase health care fees for working-age retirees and meet the Pentagon's request for an additional $118 billion to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_defense_budget

Cool! Another half trillion on defense. Another hundred billion on the wars.
Who would say no? I mean, we just caught Bin Laden!


And I like that we took the Prez authority to slash nukes away. Some might say we are violating the NPT. Almost as bad as an imaginary Iranian centrifuge.

[Standtall]

There are 61 people on the house armed services committee?