The Senate reconvened and voted 74-22 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1323, a nonbinding Sense of the Senate resolution offered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). S.1323 says people making over $1 million per year should be required to “sacrifice” in resolving the budget deficit.
No more votes are scheduled for this week. The remainder of the week and Monday afternoon will be spent on consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 1323. On Monday at 5:30 PM the Senate will vote on adoption of the motion to proceed to S. 1323.
In the House, a bipartisan group of House members led by Congressman Tim Griffin (AR-02) sent a letter to the new U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, urging him to ensure the Department of Defense (DOD) continues to make reforms to be more responsible with taxpayer dollars. Griffin’s letter to Secretary Panetta is just part of his effort to ensure accountability within DoD. In May, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included a provision by Griffin that would establish benchmarks to ensure the DOD meets their statutory requirement to produce auditable financial statements by 2017.
Mexican Trucks Can Roll Trough The USA: GOPUSA/ AP reports that yesterday, "U.S. and Mexican officials signed an agreement Wednesday allowing each country's trucks to traverse the other's highways, implementing a key provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement . . . Transportation secretaries Ray LaHood and Dionisio Perez-Jacome signed the three-year memorandum, which is based on an agreement announced in March by Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon. NAFTA, signed in 1994, had called for Mexican trucks to have unrestricted access to highways in border states by 1995 and full access to all U.S. highways by January 2000. Canadian trucks have no limits on where they can go. But until now, Mexican trucks have seldom been allowed farther than a buffer zone on the U.S. side of the border. In retaliation, Mexico had imposed higher tariffs on dozens of U.S. products. The Mexican government has now agreed to suspend those tariffs as long as the agreement is in place."
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Politico reported yesterday, “In a move that has angered some congressional Republicans, a Somali man accused of having ties to two terrorist groups — who was secretly interrogated for months aboard a U.S. Navy ship — will be prosecuted in civilian court in New York by the Justice Department, the Obama administration said. The indictment, unsealed in the Southern District of New York, charged Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame with nine counts related to supporting Al Qaeda in Yemen and the Shabab in Somalia terror groups — but the White House didn’t reveal his capture until after he had already been brought onto American soil.”
As ABC News noted, this isn’t sitting well with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., blasted the Obama administration this morning for the decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, the Somali man facing terrorism charges to New York for trial, saying the administration’s ‘ideological rigidity’ is ‘harming the national security’ of the country. ‘Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame is a foreign enemy combatant,’ McConnell said on the Senate floor this morning, ‘He should be treated as one; he should be sitting in a cell Guantanamo Bay, and eventually be tried before a military commission. Warsame is an admitted terrorist.’ . . . ‘It’s astonishing that this Administration is determined to give foreign fighters all the rights and privileges of U.S. citizens regardless of where they are captured.’ . . .”
According to Fox News, “Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the transfer ‘directly contradicts congressional intent and the will of the American people.’ ‘Congress has spoken clearly multiple times – including explicitly in pending legislation – of the perils of bringing terrorists onto U.S. soil,’ he said. . . . ‘A foreign national who fought on behalf of al Shabaab in Somali -- and who was captured by our military overseas -- should be tried in a military commission, not a federal civilian court in New York or anywhere else in our country,’ said Sen. Susan Collins, the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee.”
Meanwhile, the Eric Holder and the Justice Department are moving ahead with civilian trials in Kentucky for two Iraqi terror suspects, even though they are not U.S. citizens. The Bowling Green Daily News reported, “McConnell, the Senate minority leader, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking Holder to reconsider his decision to hold civilian trials for Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, both arrested on terrorism charges in Bowling Green in May.”
In the letter, Leader McConnell wrote, “As you know, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi are not United States citizens or legal permanent residents of this country. They are foreign nationals who apparently entered this country illegally after having fought our troops in Iraq. In addition, as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky has noted, none of their actions—both those from the past and those they planned for the future—relate to targeting our civilian population in this country. In Iraq, Alwan conducted IED attacks against our troops for several years . . . . Hammadi also engaged in IED attacks in Iraq and was part of a group of insurgent fighters that possessed eleven surface-to-air missiles. . . . [O]ur priority with enemy combatants like these should be to capture, interrogate, and detain them—indefinitely, if need be. If, after these priorities are achieved, we determine they should be tried for violating the laws of war, we should use our military commission system to do so. Our civilian criminal justice system simply is not intended for these purposes.”
As McConnell said yesterday, “[I]t has become abundantly clear that the Administration has no intention of utilizing Guantanamo unless an enemy combatant is already being held there. Instead, the Administration has purposefully imported a terrorist into the U.S. and is providing him all the rights of U.S. citizens in court. This ideological rigidity being displayed by the Administration is harming the national security of the United States of America. Alwan, Hammadi, Warsame, and all future foreign enemy combatants belong in Guantanamo. They do not deserve the same rights and privileges as Americans. The administration’s actions are inexplicable, create unnecessary risks here at home, and do nothing to increase the security of the United States.”
As outlined by others, the Obama Administration and especially Eric Holder are showing extreme arrogance and defiance of the American people and in fact willing to endanger the American public. Holder has yet to answer to the American public, why foreign terrorists like Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi are entitled to all the rights and privileges of U.S. citizen? And consider this, "who are the peers under common law who can sit as jurors in judgement of these cases? What is the reasoning an factors and the intents of President Barack Obama and AG Eric Holder that are and have led to their bringing terrorists onto American soil and trying them under American civil law verses military law. This action will lead to higher risks, higher costs (multi-millions of dollars) to Americans and in fact, may have results even more harmful to American citizens in the future.
Shame all US Senators who willingly voted to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General based on the premise that the president should have whoever he wishes verses what is best for the protection of the American people. A new low is now being set in American justice - lower even than when Attorney General John Mitchell was convicted.
Holder has both abused his authority and has placed American lives at risk or worse (they died). Is that part of his sworn Constitutional Authority? Be it enforcement of laws regarding illegals, to sanctioning gun running to Cartels in Mexico, to transport of terrorists from overseas for trial within the U.S., trying foreign terrorists in the US verses at Gitmo under established tribunals, to failing to prosecute Black Panthers for intimidating voters with violence, his actions as Attorney General have not been in the best interest of the American people. But of greatest concern is that AG Eric Holder is presently and has endangered America. When Do We Get A U.S. Attorney General We Can Trust?
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