Being debated today in Congress is The Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (H.R. 4435). It is the latest proposed National Defense Authorization Act. According to the House Armed Services Committee, the bill “will be the comprehensive legislation to authorize the budget authority of the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy.” Congressman David McKinley (R-W.Va.) is introducing an amendment to cut off funds for a whole bunch of climate programs. See the list and amendment below.
The total appropriations that are authorized amount to approximately $600 billion for fiscal year 2015. Source:
http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/MCCLIMATE51914080929929.pdf
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Ammend it to redirect all monies not spent for Climate Change related activities to a voucher program for Veterans to receive medical care at the closest facility to their place of residence.
fhhaynie says: May 21, 2014 at 9:27 am
600 billion is the total defense budget.
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Which has prevented the need for US citizens to learn how to speak German, Japanese, Russian and possiby Chinese.
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I sincerely and fervently hope Congressman McKinley’s amendment survives and is included in the final Bill. If it passes the final vote, it becomes a real ‘fishbone’ for Obama to swallow when he signs the final Defense Authorization into law. Or he can use his ‘alternate energies’ to veto the whole damn defense bill in a vain attempt to save his crony socialism ‘flower power’ programs.
Pile that on top of Our Dear Leader’s Veterans Administration healthcare debacle and cover-up and let’s see where voter sentiments heads….. I’d really like to have that public fight, right before the fall elections!
Although the amendment is an appropriate means to minimize waste of taxpayers’ money, Congressman McKinley will be branded a nutjob by the MSM and will mocked on the “comedy” and late-night shows.
The SpaceX Dragon could carry 7 persons at a time up and down, in comfort, on short notice, if not for NASA red tape. Within a year or two, it will be able to soft-land at the spaceport it lifted off from. So will the booster rockets.
The cost to orbit is about to be slashed by orders of magnitude. Like re-usable jetliners. What a concept!
@Brian H at 6:20 am
I’m a big fan of SpaceX and the Falcon 9 suite of rockets.
But we’ve heard “like re-usable jetliners” many times before. I’ll believe it when we’ve had a dozen cycles. The Atlantic wasn’t crossed in a day.
But SpaceX is doing it right: Little steps, parallel development, lots of options, lots of redundancy. SpaceX might be able to return the boosters to the pad, or a down-range recovery pad. Someday they might be able to achieve a 90% success rate for the recovery of the Stage 1. Stage 2 is much harder to recover. But would you put people on such a descent with less than 90% success? Less than 99%?
Dragon and other manned components will be coming down via parachute or lifting body for the remainder of my lifetime, and probably my children’s.
I’ll encourage my congressman, an Energy subcommittee chairman, to support this legislation. His record is mixed on CACA. He opposed cap & tax, but voted to continue windmill subsidies, not surprising since his district has the most in the world.
The State of Alabama has apparently decided to put the kibosh on climate change programs after a legislator claimed half the state would be flooded in the near term by rising sea levels. (Reported on Climate Depot.)
Chad Wozniak says:
May 22, 2014 at 1:16 pm
I wonder whence the legislator imagined ~500 feet of water would come? That’s the state’s approximate mean elevation, which of course doesn’t necessarily mean that half its land lies below that level.
Melting of both the West Antarctic & Greenland Ice Sheets might contribute perhaps 30 feet of sea level rise, while the East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains about 190 feet of water equivalent.
Is half of Alabama under 220 feet in elevation? Maybe he or she assumed a lot of thermal expansion as well.
Called Congressman Walden’s Central Oregon office, but the staffer there hadn’t heard about the amendment. Guess I need to write Greg a letter. He survived a Tea Party challenger in the primary. My buddies the recently ex-Umatilla County sheriff & County Commissioner now state senator recorded radio spots for him, so maybe I’ll activate my network behind this issue. Greg has some position in the House majority leadership, making it worth the effort, IMO.
Would urge other eastern, central & southern Oregonian readers of this blog to do likewise. Thanks.
Here’s the email I sent Rep. Walden:
Dear Greg:
I write in hopes that you will support Rep. David McKinley’s amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would prevent the Administration from funding the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable development plan or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866.
The models upon which misguided (to say the least) “climate change” policies have ostensibly been based are worse than worthless. They have failed miserably to predict climatic conditions even years in advance, yet government is supposed to rely upon them to formulate policies for the next century.
It is past time to start spending precious research dollars on real rather than voodoo science, if the baseless faith in catastrophic anthropogenic climate alarmism (CACA) can be considered any kind of science at all.
Sincerely,
John
Please, WUWT readers, write your congress critters urging passage of this amendment. It has little hope in the senate, but it will put senators on record regarding the anti-human, anti-science CACA scam.
Thanks.
It passed today
Anthony Watts says:
May 22, 2014 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for the update. Now to bring pressure to bear in the Senate.
With so many vulnerable Democrat candidates from energy producing states, the odds aren’t impossible.
Headline:
Congressman offers amendment to end spending any money on U.N. climate programs
I would have liked it better if they left off the last 2 words…
On to the Senate.
In my case, that means Wyden & the embattled Merkley. Both liberals, but who knows? Odds are slim, but will give them a try. Both fellow Stanford grads (transfer in Wyden’s case), for whatever that’s worth, probably not much. At least Merkley is an actual Oregonian, born & raised, unlike Wyden, who is from out of state & lives in NYC with his second wife, a New York heiress.
Most Oregonians buy into the CACA scam, so I have a long row to hoe.
No money. No green.
Some Senators are up for reelection.
Pay attention and vote accordingly.