Veterans return home each and every day. Veterans Unemployment at 35 percent higher than the rest of the country. Veterans Unemployment at over 225,000. Veteran Homeless is at 12% (roughly 67,000) American heroes. Veterans suicides is at an all time high.
S.3457 - Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012
A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a veterans jobs corps, and for other purposes.
(Linked OpenCongress)
The Veterans Jobs Corp Act would have created new job-training programs to help veterans find work in targeted fields such as national park conservation, historic preservation projects, police work and firefighting, among others.
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Sponsor
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D, CT]
Added September 10, 2012 - Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA]
Added September 13, 2012 - Sen. Al Franken [D, MN]
Added September 11, 2012 - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY]
Added August 02, 2012 - Sen. Joe Manchin [D, WV]Added September 13, 2012
- Sen. Jeff Merkley [D, OR]
Added September 10, 2012 - Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA]
Added July 30, 2012 - Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY]
Added September 10, 2012 - Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
Added September 10, 2012 - Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
Added August 02, 2012
Rachel Maddow reported that four republicans helped to write amendments to the Bill, and turned their backs on their own work.
Obama Administration document in support of the Jobs Corp bill.
Senate Republicans stopped the veterans jobs bill Wednesday by forcing a budget point of order vote.Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (R-Ill.) requested a motion to waive the budget point of order, which was raised by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Democrats needed 60 votes, but got only 58.“This violates the Budget Control Act, there is no dispute about it,” Sessions said in a floor speech Wednesday. “The bill will not even go through the House and it violates the Constitution because it says revenue bills must be started in the House ... [and] this is a revenue bill.”“At every turn, we have sought compromise. But instead of meeting us halfway, we have been met with resistance,” Murray said. (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) “Instead of saying yes to the nearly one million unemployed veterans, it seems some on the other side have spent the last week and a half seeking out any way to say no.”
The United States came out of the Clinton years with no declared or underfunded wars, regional conflicts (beyond bin Laden) that required standing and billions in associated logistics. Clinton passed on a balanced budget to the incoming president (George W. Bush); a budget billions of dollars of funding necessary for conducting wars. While the national debt was reflective of borrowing from countries such as Saudi Arabia and China, it was heading unarguable on downward paths when Presidents Carter and when Clinton left office. For those who will jump to "Poppycock", we at the TPI generally do the following.
Yes, President Obama has added to the National Debt. Before finding major solace in that fact, a quick Google search related to how Obama has increased the debt will quell your excitement.
The GOP for every prospect imaginable since I can recall. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are consistent mongering camera hounds with any opportunity for war. One would think a party that literally has jingoism at the roots, long for opportunity to help returning veterans.
The party has two major impediments to getting behind help for our veterans. First, President Obama proposed the legislation in his last State of the Union Speech. Second, US veterans, unfortunately, fall into that 47% under-class eloquent identified to wealthy schmoozers and donors.
The party has two major impediments to getting behind help for our veterans. First, President Obama proposed the legislation in his last State of the Union Speech. Second, US veterans, unfortunately, fall into that 47% under-class eloquent identified to wealthy schmoozers and donors.
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