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"We appreciate that President Obama's budget contains funding to add research missions currently at Plum Island to Kansas State's Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI). It's a signal that Kansas researchers are more than capable of meeting the very challenging task of helping protect our food supply and our overall national security."However, for the first time, President Obama's budget fails to provide vital resources for construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) despite his administration's overwhelming support for it in the past. A needless effort to reassess the importance of protecting our nation's food supply is a waste of taxpayer dollars. This change of direction is unacceptable and will leave our country vulnerable. "That said, President Obama's budget is an exercise in futility and reads more like a campaign document. The Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the Senate will not even consider the president's budget."The evidence is clear that we need a cutting-edge biosecurity level 4 facility in this country. Kansas has won every competition, met every standard and proven its commitment to this project, and we'll do whatever it takes to fulfill this critical national security need."
Mr Obama’s advisers know how little the budget matters. As they went through the motions of explaining it today, they noted that big initiatives, such as corporate tax reform and the Buffett rule minimum tax for millionaires, are not part of it; they will come later as part of a broader reform proposal. Bigger changes to entitlements would likewise be part of a “grand bargain” between Republicans and Democrats and Mr Obama was not about to share his negotiating position with reporters.Administration officials, like the Republicans, know the real fight comes after November, when the battle for the White House is over and several big deadlines loom. Chief among these are the expiration of Mr Bush’s tax cuts and the sequester. No one knows how that crunch will be avoided, and reading Mr Obama’s budget leaves one none the wiser.
Quote from: brownback "We appreciate that President Obama's budget contains funding to add research missions currently at Plum Island to Kansas State's Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI). It's a signal that Kansas researchers are more than capable of meeting the very challenging task of helping protect our food supply and our overall national security."However, for the first time, President Obama's budget fails to provide vital resources for construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) despite his administration's overwhelming support for it in the past. A needless effort to reassess the importance of protecting our nation's food supply is a waste of taxpayer dollars. This change of direction is unacceptable and will leave our country vulnerable. "That said, President Obama's budget is an exercise in futility and reads more like a campaign document. The Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the Senate will not even consider the president's budget."The evidence is clear that we need a cutting-edge biosecurity level 4 facility in this country. Kansas has won every competition, met every standard and proven its commitment to this project, and we'll do whatever it takes to fulfill this critical national security need."I'm sure your political jabs are going to help us get this thing Brownback your rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)
Relax gang. Rolling out budgets is much the same as a Wally Judge pregame dunk show - really cool, fear/awe inspiring, but not really in any way part of the actual game.
It's not lost. There are about 4,653 different ways to put it into a budget of some sort...Obama is doing what he should do - positioning.
Quote from: Cricketer on February 14, 2012, 10:14:56 AMIt's not lost. There are about 4,653 different ways to put it into a budget of some sort...Obama is doing what he should do - positioning. Obama has nothing to do with this. He put funding for NBAF in his original budget. He also has no reason to care about the Kansas vote, so he has no reason to find one of those 4,653 different ways to put it back in.
SEBELIUS!!!
just needs renamed and attached to something completely non related.
This president's proposed budgets are not real and not worth the thousands of pages of paper they're printed on. He has never had one that has ever been seriously considered by the Senate. Harry Reid just says "put whatever you want in it and we will throw it away for you."
Quote from: Cire on February 14, 2012, 10:21:45 AMSEBELIUS!!!is a $!#*!
Quote from: wetwillie on February 14, 2012, 01:37:40 PMjust needs renamed and attached to something completely non related. I have always wanted to do this. Like, attach it to funding for troops in Afghanistan.
Patriot American Flag Initiative For Soldiers Injured In The War Who Need Medical Treatment And Also Assurances That They Don't Get Bio-Bombed By Someone Later Act
