Penny wise-pound foolish when it comes to travel dollars:
With a few simple words — “I would have to object” — Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina derailed a Senate Armed Services hearing today in which generals had traveled from Korea and Hawaii to testify about the Pentagon’s needs for the next year.
Burr, joining his GOP colleagues’ outrage at the new health reform law, used an obscure Senate rule to prevent the Armed Services committee from meeting this afternoon – even though he said he personally wanted the hearing to occur.
Republicans are angry over the signing Tuesday of the health reform law that President Barack Obama and Democrats have been working toward for the past year.
Now I realize there will be things for the COCOMS to get done in DC-but regardless of which side of the issue you are on, there are other issues that need to be dealt with.