Senate Bill sb1888

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SM 1888

    By Senator Dockery





    15-1388-04

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to give first priority

  4         to supporting and passing the Defense

  5         Appropriations Bill.

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  7         WHEREAS, the security of our nation and people is the

  8  first and foremost obligation of the United States Federal

  9  Government, and

10         WHEREAS, the men and women of our United States Armed

11  Forces now serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps,

12  Coast Guard, Merchant Marines, National Guard, and Reserves

13  have shown great courage and self-sacrifice and deserve to be

14  equipped with the best weapons and resources to protect our

15  nation, and

16         WHEREAS, in past years politicians have delayed passing

17  the Defense Appropriations Bill until late in the budget year

18  so that the Defense Appropriations Bill was misused as a

19  dumping ground for pork-barrel spending and as a political

20  hostage to pork-barrel spending in other appropriations bills,

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22         WHEREAS, in the wake of the terrorist attacks of

23  September 11, 2001, on America, President Bush asked that the

24  Congress of the United States pass that year's Defense

25  Appropriations Bill before passing other spending bills, and

26         WHEREAS, Congress acted responsibly in the Spring of

27  2002 when it passed the Defense Appropriations Bill first,

28  thereby protecting the men and women in our armed forces from

29  becoming pawns for politicians' spending maneuvers, NOW,

30  THEREFORE,

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SM 1888
    15-1388-04




 1  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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 3         That the Congress of the United States is commended for

 4  making our nation's defense its first priority in 2002, and is

 5  requested to continue this important tradition by passing and

 6  enacting the Defense Appropriations Legislation before all

 7  other spending bills in 2004 and in future years.

 8         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

 9  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

10  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

11  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

12  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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