Rep. Chris Van Hollen is being treated with obscurity regarding a particular paragraph in the budget scam.
He is on the floor right now and if the Republicans continue to corrupt the parliamentary procedure the budget will have to be litigated to return law back to law.
It is about the first paragraph of Title IV. He is stating there is many problems with the budget process. The problems are to perform end runs around a long standing clarification of the law to end schemes.
1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (click here)
We are back to "OCO Funds" and the spending of $550 million for overseas military bases.
The Republicans are striking Title IV of the Budget Law paragraph by paragraph. The are destroying long standing budgetary law that controls corruption of the process.
The act has been amended several times, including provisions in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The original 1974 legislation, however, remains the basic blueprint for budget procedures today.
The DOD, according to Rep. Van Hollen, is stating the war accounts (OCO) is not suppose to be used as a slush fund which is exactly what the Republicans are attempting to do. The OCO funds were never suppose to be used for free lance funding by either Congress or the President. The OCO funds needs to return to proper balance of it's legislated use.
Page 62 of the Budgetary Act is the section being exploited. The OCO funds began to exploition under Bush. It is a slush fund with ever growing use outside the parameters of the "War Powers Act."
Camp Lemonnier (click here) is the primary base of operations for U.S. Africa Command in the Horn of Africa.
The proposed spending is to be carried in the 2016 Budget and made available until 2020. It is a slush fund.
While the country is engaged in concern, as it should, regarding the deaths of African American members that are citizens of this country, the Republicans are seeking to pass legislation that is nothing but pure corruption.
That is typical of the Republicans. They are always exploiting the country's attention and where it is to either exploit in support of the country's attention or hide it. It is a method for manipulating the political environment of the electorate. This is at the very least ethics violations and needs to be conducted as such.
He is on the floor right now and if the Republicans continue to corrupt the parliamentary procedure the budget will have to be litigated to return law back to law.
It is about the first paragraph of Title IV. He is stating there is many problems with the budget process. The problems are to perform end runs around a long standing clarification of the law to end schemes.
1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (click here)
We are back to "OCO Funds" and the spending of $550 million for overseas military bases.
The Republicans are striking Title IV of the Budget Law paragraph by paragraph. The are destroying long standing budgetary law that controls corruption of the process.
The act has been amended several times, including provisions in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The original 1974 legislation, however, remains the basic blueprint for budget procedures today.
The DOD, according to Rep. Van Hollen, is stating the war accounts (OCO) is not suppose to be used as a slush fund which is exactly what the Republicans are attempting to do. The OCO funds were never suppose to be used for free lance funding by either Congress or the President. The OCO funds needs to return to proper balance of it's legislated use.
Page 62 of the Budgetary Act is the section being exploited. The OCO funds began to exploition under Bush. It is a slush fund with ever growing use outside the parameters of the "War Powers Act."
Camp Lemonnier (click here) is the primary base of operations for U.S. Africa Command in the Horn of Africa.
The proposed spending is to be carried in the 2016 Budget and made available until 2020. It is a slush fund.
While the country is engaged in concern, as it should, regarding the deaths of African American members that are citizens of this country, the Republicans are seeking to pass legislation that is nothing but pure corruption.
That is typical of the Republicans. They are always exploiting the country's attention and where it is to either exploit in support of the country's attention or hide it. It is a method for manipulating the political environment of the electorate. This is at the very least ethics violations and needs to be conducted as such.
