Guard Duty Forces Rep. Gabbard To Miss Votes

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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard‘s mandatory annual Army National Guard training doesn’t finish until Friday (Feb. 8), forcing her to miss some votes in Congress.

They included a vote Tuesday (Feb. 5) on a Republican bill “that would require President Obama to estimate when the federal budget will come back into balance and describe the steps needed to get there.”

Excerpts from The Hill‘s report:

Members approved the Require a Plan Act in a mostly party-line 228-189 vote after an hour of debate in which Democrats repeatedly called the bill “stupid.”

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass., pictured) said the bill is stupid because it would start forcing cuts to government spending, which he said was the reason why U.S. GDP fell 0.1 percent in the last quarter of 2012. …

Hawaii’s Rep. Colleen Hanabusa and all but three Democrats voted against the measure. 

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