Wow. An email from a friend:
Tonight in the House Rules Committee, Rep. Thad McCotter (R-MI), introduced an amendment to the President’s stimulus bill (H.R. 1) that would require any new infrastructure project – roads, bridges, schools, post offices or any other buildings — created by funding provided in H.R. 1 to be named after a member of the United States Armed Forces who was killed in combat or an emergency response provider who was killed in the line of duty.
The amendment was voted down on with all 9 Democrats on the Committee voting no to the 3 Republican yea votes.
It seems that Democrats are determined to name any new projects after themselves. West Virginia may actually be renamed “Byrdland”…
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Byrdland
10ksnooker (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 9:28PM EST (link)A place for byrdbrains.
To quote Roman Marone, "Basstages !" nt
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 9:30PM EST (link)Wow indeed
Kyle-MI (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 10:10PM EST (link)I can’t believe Democrats turned down this type of a harmless amendment. You would have, at least, thought they would allow a couple of Dems to agree to political cover.
Betcha they never thought anyone would find out.
janis (Diary) Tuesday, January 27th at 10:37PM EST (link)Libs always overplay their hand. Since they have won all the marbles this time, they think they can do as they please. They badly underestimate the ability of folks like Erick to get the word out.
The troops will remember getting screwed. The families of those KIA will remember getting screwed. And so will we.
You gotta be kidding
scooley Wednesday, January 28th at 3:20AM EST (link)The families got screwed when their son was killed, not from not having a damn street named after them.
This seems silly on McCotter's part
bk (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 6:28AM EST (link)Maybe he’s trying to make sure nothing gets named after Obama or any of the Dems. I can’t imagine the families could care about this bill at all. There will always be some local politician looking to name something after a local troop killed in action without having the federal government engage in even more micromanagement than they already do. And if there are 197,374 things named after Robert C. Byrd in WV as opposed to 197,373 of them, who cares?