Dr. Eowyn posted: " Michael Dorstewitz writes for BizPac Review, Jan.
11, 2014: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blocked a last-ditch
effort by Republicans Thursday to restore full military pensions. Their
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/eowyn2/> Democrats cut military
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*Michael Dorstewitz writes for BizPac Review
<http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/01/11/senate-dems-deny-last-ditch-effort-to-restore-military-pensions-illegals-tax-refunds-win-out-93493>,
Jan. 11, 2014:*
*Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., blocked a last-ditch effort by
Republicans Thursday to restore full military pensions. Their proposal
would have been paid for by denying tax credits to undocumented immigrants.*
*Pensions to retired and disabled veterans were cut last month in a budget
compromise hammered out by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., and Rep. Paul Ryan,
R-Wisc*., according to the Washington Free
Beacon<http://freebeacon.com/senate-democrats-block-amendment-to-restore-military-pensions/>
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Sen Kelly Ayotte
*Sen. Kelly Ayotte <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Ayotte>, R-N.H.,
attempted to restore the pensions* in the form of an amendment to a bill to
extend long-term unemployment benefits. It would have been *financed by
requiring anyone claiming the Child Tax Credit to have a valid Social
Security number, effectively denying the credits to illegal immigrants.*
The Free Beacon reported:
Ayotte’s office said the bill would save approximately $20 billion over 10
years.
According to the Treasury Inspector General for the Tax Administration
(TIGTA), the refund provides incentives for aliens to enter the country
illegally and cost taxpayers $4.2 billion alone in fraudulent payments in
2010.
*“The investigations of this tax refund found that they were claiming it
for people who were, No.1, not authorized to work in this country, and
secondly, for children that may not even exist,” Ayotte said* in a floor
speech.
Sen. *Barbara Boxer*, D-Calif., called Ayotte’s efforts to require
undocumented immigrants to present valid Social Security numbers — referred
to as SSNs — nothing more than “partisan” politics.
“Talk about fiddling while Rome burns,” Boxer said, according to the Free
Beacon. “If you are one of the 1.3 million people in this country—222,000
in my state—whose house is burning down because they’re going to lose the
safety net of $300 a week to feed their families, to take care of their
kids, to heat their homes, and my colleague talks about letters [SSN]?”
*Ayotte’s amendment failed by a 42-54 vote, with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V.,
the single Democrat voting with the GOP.*
“It’s a sad day when a common-sense amendment to responsibly pay for
legislation that helps struggling Americans, repeals unfair military
retirement benefits and reduces the deficit can’t even get a vote in the
Senate,” Ayotte said in a statement, the Free Beacon reported. “We need to
be able to have votes on behalf of our states, on behalf of the American
people, and if we disagree, let’s vote them down. I don’t see what the
issue is there, unless you’re worried that it’s going to pass because it
just makes too much sense.”
H/t FOTM's Wild Bill Alaska
*~Eowyn*
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