Monday, July 26, 2021

Senate Armed Services votes more $$ for Pentagon than Biden requested


Defense Business Brief
July 23, 2021    
            
Last Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 23-3 to recommend adding $25 billion to the Biden administration's $715 billion Pentagon budget proposal in its markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.

Surprisingly little notice taken of this in alternative media. 

Only 3 members of the Committee - E. Warren (D);  T. Cotton (R); J. Hawley (R) - voted against adding $25 billion to Biden's Pentagon budget.

This is a list of Committee members:

Democrat party members (13)    

Reed, Jack (RI), Chairman
Shaheen, Jeanne (NH)
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (NY)
Blumenthal, Richard (CT)
Hirono, Mazie K. (HI)
Kaine, Tim (VA)
King, Angus S. (ME)
Warren, Elizabeth (MA)
Peters, Gary C. (MI)
Manchin, Joe (WV)
Duckworth, Tammy (IL)
Rosen, Jacky (NV)
Kelly, Mark (AZ)
    

Republican party members (13)

Inhofe, James M. (OK), Ranking Member
Wicker, Roger F. (MS)
Fischer, Deb (NE)
Cotton, Tom (AR)
Rounds, Mike (SD)
Ernst, Joni (IA)
Tillis, Thom (NC)
Sullivan, Dan (AK)
Cramer, Kevin (ND)
Scott, Rick (FL)
Blackburn, Marsha (TN)
Hawley, Josh (MO)
Tuberville, Tommy (AL) 

1 comment:

Gar Smith said...

Thanks for listing the members and their votes. Will post on our website to help hold our elected representatives accountable. How disappointing to see twice as many Republicans as Dems voted against handing the DoD an addition $25 billion. — Environmentalists Against War