Republicans have cast votes against the key TSA funding measure that the 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security contained, which included funding for the TSA, including for explosives detection systems and other aviation security measures. In the June 24 vote in the House, leading Republicans including John Boehner, Pete Hoekstra, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan voted against the bill, amid a procedural dispute over the appropriations process, a Democrat points out. A full 108 Republicans voted against the conference version, including Boehner, Hoekstra, Pence, Michelle Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Darrell Issa and Joe Wilson.
via www.politico.com
The way liberals are winning the battle over health care is with facts--such as the fact that middle class families will save money under the reform bill.
Facts are coming in handy again as the Republicans try to politicize terrorism in the wake of the attempt to bring down a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
You can't attack the administration on this issue with an credibility if you consistently vote against something as simple as paying for better screening devices.
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