House Dems provide most votes for new 2023 war budget in House

HR7900, the bill authorizing the "Defense" budget was approved last night 329-101 y-n.  The bill authorizes spending $840 B which includes $37 B on top of Biden's budget request.  the House bll allocates $808.4 billion for the Pentagon, $30.5 billion to the Department of Energy and another $400 million in defense-related activities elsewhere in the federal government. 

Here is how OR Representatives voted

Oregon
Nay	OR 1st	D	Bonamici, Suzanne
Yea	OR 2nd	R	Bentz, Cliff
Nay	OR 3rd	D	Blumenauer, Earl
Nay	OR 4th	D	DeFazio, Peter
Nay	OR 5th	D	Schrader, Kurt

And here is the vote nationwide divided by Dems and Reps.   Once again a clear bi-partisan approval. So who is the war party?  The duopoly: Dem/Rep Party. 

All Votes		Democrats	Republicans
Yea	77%	329	180	149
Nay	23%	101	39	62
Not Voting		1	1	0

Passed. Simple Majority Required. Source: house.gov.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/117-2022/h350?utm_campaign=govtrack_email_update&utm_source=govtrack/email_update&utm_medium=email

The vote in the Senate is expected in Sept.  Their Senate Armed Services Committee approved the Biden budget plus an additional $45 billion.  

After the Senate approves the budget, the House and Senate will form a committee to iron out the difference.  A new vote will be held on this joint bill and if approved, it will be sent to the President for his signature.  The President, however he is, always signs.  

Two American war parties approve spending $40.1 b for war on Ukraine w/all 'progressive" members voting Yes

Both the House and Senate have voted to approve the Biden request for additional funds to conduct our war in Ukraine.  While Biden had requested $33 B, Congress added $7 b more, approving a total of $40.1 Billion.   

This again was another bi-partisan support for more war by the two American War Parties, the Democrat' and Republicans.  The House vote was 368 Yes vs 57 No, while the Senate vote was 86 yes v 11 No.  All the No votes in both the Senate and House were from Republican members of Congress.  All OR Representatives voted Yes as did both Or Senators.  Note that all members of the Progressive Squad voted including AOC voted in favor of additional funding.  Progressive Senator Sanders voted in favor.  

Checking the websites of Rep. Blumenauer and Bonamici as well as Sen Wyden and Merkley, looking for press statements from them explaining their votes.  None of them thought their votes important enough to warrant a statement.  SHAME!

See the votes in the House here and in the Senate here.  

I think that it would be very appropriate for us to call Rep. Bluemanuer and Rep. Bonamici as well as Senators Wyden and Merkley and ask that they explain their vote.  We need to have some accountability.  Find their contact info easily here:  https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map

Glenn Greenwald in a story noted:  

 

To put this $54 billion [DD note:  that is $40.1 billion plus $14 billion which had been approved shortly after the beginning of the conflict] amount in perspective, it is (a) larger than the average annual amount that the U.S. spent on its own war in Afghanistan ($46 billion), (b) close to the overall amount Russia spends on its entire military for the year ($69 billion), (c) close to 7% of the overall U.S. military budget, by far the largest in the world ($778 billion), and (d) certain to be far, far higher — easily into the hundreds of billions of dollars and likely the trillion dollar level — given that U.S. officials insist that this war will last not months but years, and that it will stand with Ukraine until the bitter end.

Link to Glenn Greenwald story:  https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-unanimous-dem-support-426?s=r