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Marie Gaines (Harris)

GOOD ONES!  KEEP THEM COMING!

Dick Storey

Ted Cruise (R, TX and Steve Daines (R, MT) shared a fist  pump when the PACT bill was not passed by the Senate. The MT newspapers are blasting Daines, and MT is a very red state.

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Nova Guynes

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope look deep into universe

Nova Guynes

 I wonder if the Democrats will be able to keep the January 6^th hearings going until the 2024 election.

Dick Storey

8/3/2022

ASSOCIATED PRESS and MONTANA STATE NEWS BUREAU

Following days of being in limbo, legislation meant to ensure health care for veterans sickened by toxic exposure from burn pits cleared the U.S. Senate after Republicans ended their opposition to the bill.

The 86-11 vote ended weeks of delay that began with a constitutional concern over an obscure tax provision that had to be removed. And the holdup grew longer after an eleventh-hour objection from Republican senators last week who pushed for an amendment to change how some Department of Veterans Affairs health care spending is accounted for in the budget.

President Joe Biden is certain to sign the bill into law in the coming days.

The legislation, long sought by veterans groups, means that millions of veterans suffering health problems will no longer have to prove their illnesses were caused by exposure to toxic substances from military deployments. Many served at bases that used open-air burn pits to dispose of trash and hazardous waste.

The bill would make service members who contracted any of 23 conditions — from brain cancer to hypertension — after being deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other combat zones automatically eligible for VA benefits. The measure is expected to cost nearly $280 billion over a decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

John Radzinski

Thanks for all the posts regarding the burn pit legislation for veterans. So sad to listen to the "news" and go away not understanding why an obvious needed legislation is not passed. So sick of the media. I remember my daughter Alane telling me about the burn pits on Balad AFB in Iraq when she was there. I'll never forget that feeling in the pit of my stomach having my brave, young daughter over there and in Afganistan serving our country. We owe our veterans a debt that can never be repaid, but we sure as hell need to try. Oh, and I yelled and clapped when that 80 year old store manager took care of business with his shotgun. Good for him. Stay safe everyone. JOHN

Nova Guynes

That is good that they are addressing the Veterans that have been affected by the burn pits

If it is agent orange, burn pits, ptsd or other things that have injured our Veterans, it should be covered. It is a shame all the crap they try to pack onto the bills.

Do Veterans have to wait to be treated in Veterans Hospitals?  I thought Trump passed a law, that if a veteran had to wait longer than 20 days or drive over 30 minutes, they could go to a local doctor, and it will be paid by VA.

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Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Oh dear, I may never be able to eat a brownie again!

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Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

I fired myself from housekeeping for those same reasons ages ago!

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Marie Gaines (Harris)

They may be funny, but I don't do video stuff on FB....too much tracking!

I am sure lots of you out there laubhed!  But keep them coming!

W Leggett

https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/comments/sn5l2g/dogs_can_ride_skateboards/

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Nelson Evans

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The Homeland Security Department announced late Monday that it will end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy and welcome ousted illegal immigrants back into the U.S. after a federal court dissolved the last remaining hurdle.

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk lifted his permanent injunction after the Supreme Court ruled in late June that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas did have power under the law to end the border security program, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols.

Under MPP, some illegal immigrants caught jumping the southern border were pushed back into Mexico to wait for their immigration court hearings.

The policy’s goal was to deny them the foothold that has served as an enticement for an unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants, and it proved strikingly successful for the Trump team.

But the Biden administration called the policy cruel, and has pushed from its early days to end the program, along with most of the rest of the Trump administration’s get-tough immigration policies.

The department said Monday it will immediately stop ousting people under MPP, and said the several thousands who’d been ousted under MPP in recent months will be and welcomed back when they show up for their next appointments — though they remain under threat of deportation.

“As Secretary Mayorkas has said, MPP has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border,” the department said in a statement announcing the move.

Judge Kacsmaryk had ruled that Congress laid out a framework that calls for illegal immigrants to be detained or released under rare circumstances. In cases where neither of those was possible, he said the law required they be returned to Mexico.

An appeals court backed Judge Kacsmaryk, but the Supreme Court disagreed in a 5-4 ruling led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

He said Congress made return of the illegal immigrants to Mexico optional, and the Biden administration has more leeway to decide how to treat those jumping the border.

Since Judge Kacsmaryk’s original ruling last year, the Biden administration has put about 5,000 illegal immigrants into MPP, according to the latest numbers through June 30.

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Marie Gaines (Harris)

KEEP THEM COMING!!

Nova Guynes

Marie Gaines (Harris)

Nova, I can not open image, but I know it has to be good!