President Vetoes Bill That Includes Support for Autism
Don’t get me wrong, in my personal opinion, Dems and Repubs are equally worthless, but Kristina Chew does a nice job breaking it down. President Bush tries to have it both ways. When the Dems spend like drunken sailors, he says they act like a college kid with a new credit card. When he spends like a drunken sailor, anyone who disagrees with him is giving in to terrorists.
President Vetoes Bill That Includes Support for Autism
President Bush has vetoed the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bill—the “Democrats’ top-priority domestic spending bill,” as noted in tonight’s Washington Post. The Autism Society of America (ASA) outlined autism funding included in the bill:
• $37 million for autism public awareness and early intervention
• $16.5 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to use toward surveillance and research
• $1 million to reinstate the Inter-Agency Autism Coordinating Committee, which would develop a strategic plan for autism research at the National Institutes of Health.
The President has signed a $459 billion annual Defense Department spending bill which increases the Pentagon’s budget 9.5 percent, for funding “operations other than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
As the ASA noted last week, President Bush “vowed to veto the bill because it asks for $9.8 billion more than his budget proposal.”
Autism Bulletin has more commentary.
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