WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Mark Sanford released the following statement regarding his vote for H.R. 4870, the Fiscal Year 2015 Defense Appropriations bill:
“Last week, the House passed the next in the series of twelve spending bills for 2015 – the Department of Defense appropriations bill, which lays out how to spend the $570 billion that the House authorized a few weeks ago in the National Defense Authorization Act,” said Sanford. “I ultimately supported this measure because the final price tag came in at the budget spending caps for next year. That being said, I think some of the more interesting pieces here were two amendments that were offered.”
“First, in an encouraging win for liberty, an amendment on NSA surveillance reform that I co-sponsored passed 293-123,” continued Sanford. “It would do two things – close a loophole that allows the government to conduct a warrantless search for an American’s electronic information stored outside the country, and block the government from requesting a “backdoor” into private technology companies’ files. Both are important steps in the ongoing fight to rein in abuses of power at the National Security Agency, and I was glad to see it pass with such bipartisan support.”
“Second was another amendment I co-sponsored that did not pass – this one to set an expiration date on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF),” added Sanford. “The AUMF cedes too much authority to the executive branch to determine our involvement in other countries’ conflicts without ongoing Congressional consultation and oversight. Given that we have spent over $1.5 trillion on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, lost thousands of American lives, and are now facing new questions on the crisis in Iraq, I think Congress ought to carefully consider how best to reset their Constitutionally mandated responsibility of true advice and consent as it relates to the use of force. To continue without this amendment is to continue unilateral executive branch action in putting men and women into harm’s way, and I think this is a mistake.”
“Ultimately, there were a number of things to support in this bill, and while I wish it had gone further in protecting individual liberties and restoring checks and balances between the different branches of government, it was a good step toward getting us back toward an annual process of debating and passing spending bills.”
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“Yeah, I voted on the spending bill, but look at these two mostly meaningless items over here.”
Should anyone be surprised when a “fiscal conservative” that can’t run his own personal life effectively also schleps off on his fiscal conservatism like it’s a cold wife?
You mean like ‘socialist liberal’ Barney ‘loli-pop’ Frank whose boyfriend ran a gay prostitution ring out of his basement and denied he knew anything about it?
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when American hating ‘socialist liberals’ can’t run their own personal life effectively and schleps off the taxpayers in search of Long Dong Silver.
By definition, liberals are perverts.
Thank you for the red herring.
Exactly, this is the basic point I’ve made many times. Gow can any of these liars cheats and adulterers be trusted with ANY position of public trust! The Republican Party (my party) and the Democrat party coddles, spins, makes excuses for and continues to elect, reelect and pay homage to these people, only to find out over and over they are never to be trusted!
Bill Clinton
Bobby Harrell
Barak Obama
Nikki Haley
Anthony Weiner
Bob Peeler
Newt Gingrich
Steve Banjamine
Richard Eckstrom
Jimmy Metts
Jason Amadio
Danny Frazier
Ken Ard
John McCain
Liars, Cheats who lie and cheat their own families! Should they ever be trusted by the electorate? Answer, a resounding NO, NEVER, NO WAY!!
OK, so now his “data” stored in Argentina is safe?
and while I wish it had gone further in protecting individual liberties
I’d be amazed if he could keep a straight face while saying that.
For Sanford, like many others, “Conservatism” is a tool to use for electoral purposes.
For ‘traitor’Tommy Ervin , lying about being a self-styled Independent Republican is a tool to use for electoral purposes.
NEWS FLASH: “Dog bites man. Congressman does job he was elected to do.”…. What a wanker.
Take a hike, Mark!
He did DUMBASS!!!! All the way to Washington D.C.!!! LMAO!!! Go Mark and keep up the good work!!!!
Yay for taxes eh dumbshit?
Again Sandi posts and erases all doubt about HE/SHE is and IDIOT, beyond help!
I will speculate that before SANFRAUD’s term is up, his “soul mate” will have hooked a bigger fish.
I will speculate that you watch porn every night in your mom’s basement with Smirks.
You mis-speculate.
My mama got no basement!
Yeah, and I watch my porn in private!
I will speculate that he’s watching porn in your mom’s basement with Smirks, and your mom.
No worries, he’ll just
go to another South American countryhike the Appalachian trail andget some more exotic strangemysteriously enter into another “godly” relationship. (And by “godly” I mean the God of Second Chances © of course.)This from a duty shirking SOB who personally stated he should not be activated because he was now Governor and his duty was to the citizens of South Carolina and not the oath he took when he joined the USAF Reserves in a fit of patriotic fever in order to (and I quote: “set an example for his sons”).
Sanfraud is a disgrace but an even bigger disgrace are the people who voted him back into congress.
Fuck a bunch of Mark Sanfraud is what I say
Yeah. We should have supported socialist/Marxist Elizabeth Colbert Busch/Pelosi/Chavez/Castro/Obama for SC1!!!!???
DUMBASS TOM ERVIN VOTER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We should have supported socialist/Marxist Elizabeth Colbert Busch/Pelosi/Chavez/Castro/Obama for SC1!!!!???
Notice the distinct lack of logical reasoning as to why this person thinks Mark Sanford was a better fit for the job than Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. Instead, we get as much linkage to buzzwords that conservatives have given negative connotations to, as well as Republican boogiemen.
*socialist
*Marxist
*Pelosi
*Chavez (he’s dead, mate)
*Castro (he’s almost dead, mate)
*Obama
*Tom Ervin (the guy Sandi’s paid to bash on FITS)
I guess since Sanford suggested Haley (a final “fuck you” to SC before he left), Haley’s paid troll is going to cheerlead for him in return.
Hey dude…the Devil is the ‘boogieman’ and your list just about covers it.
You keep posting that I am paid by Haley? False. Never met her or have had ANY contact with her campaign.
I did like your list. Pretty much covers it except 1% Hillary , Jay Carney , Al Queda ,Hitler and the IRS Commisioner.
Sanford? He asked for forgiveness and apparently received redemption from the voters. Also, by debating the cardboard cut out of the most evil women in America besides 1% Hillary , he proved that lib/soc are intellectually bankrupt souls that don’t need to be taken seriously.
Brilliant!! Add defeated Green Peace/Marxist, carpetbagger Gloria Tinabu to the mix and you see why the Democrat Party in SC is the laughingstock of the nation.Ervin is just trying to continue the tradition of failure and flawed candidates for the party.
The fact that you can’t keep yourself from mentioning Ervin is pretty solid evidence for the theory you’re a paid commenter.
Here we go again !Again Sandi posts and erases all doubt about HE/SHE is and IDIOT, beyond help!
Damn. The IRS Commissioner trying to cover-up the Watergate/Obama/IRS scandel has apparently given the Dems over 100 Grand!
Was worried until I did the math and figured out that apparently Tom Ervin and his wife have given the same amount or more to the Dems and its candidates for political office.
What a self-identified DISGRACE! Both of em.
IRS, Ervin… yup, nothing to do with Sanford.
Per P@C Mark Sanford is grateful for the forgiveness that was bestowed on him. It was 5 years ago today that he created a massive storm that hurt so many people.
It should not be surprising that Republicans are worried about protecting overseas information. Remember after we paid Halliburton hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on a no bid contract arranged by their former CEO, Dick Cheney, they moved their corporate headquarters to Dubai, so that they could avoid paying taxes in the US and they would not be subject to SEC disclosure rules, which would have enable Americans to see how much profit they made on the Iraq War. Also, we certainly would not want to accidently see the wire transfers into Dick’s Swiss bank account.
Great Read about Sanford: and the 5th Anniversary of THE CONFESSION: Link: http://scdigest.blogspot.com/