<div dir="ltr">Voting no on a bill which provides additional funds which may or may not be utilized for law enforcement is not the same as voting to decrease existing funds as has been done in several large metropolitan areas and at the urging of many prominent progressive politicians including the current vice president.<div><br><div>Desperately trying to change the narrative on defunding law enforcement is foremost on the mind of democrats with the potential shellacking they are soon to be faced with in the upcoming midterms.</div></div><div><br></div><div>g</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 5:13 AM Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div>Courtesy of <i>The Speaker</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/7921-0" target="_blank">https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/7921-0</a></div><div><br></div><div>—————————————————</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(38,37,62);font-family:kepler-std,serif;font-size:38px;letter-spacing:0px">House Republicans Are Trying to Defund the Capitol Police</span></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">CBS News: Capitol Police Could Face Cuts Without Passage of Funding Bill House Republicans Unanimously Opposed <u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">From the Speaker’s Press Office: </span></u></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">Every single House Republican voted to defund the Capitol Police.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">In May, House Democrats voted to provide funding to shore up the Capitol Police budget and provide back pay and mental health services to the heroes who protected our country on January 6th.  Republicans voted unanimously to block that funding – and now the Capitol Police may literally run out of money to pay officers. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cbsnews.com_news_u-2Ds-2Dcapitol-2Dpolice-2Dmay-2Drun-2Dout-2Dof-2Dfunding-2Dif-2Dcongress-2Ddoes-2Dnot-2Dact_&d=DwMFaQ&c=L93KkjKsAC98uTvC4KvQDdTDRzAeWDDRmG6S3YXllH0&r=9Qyd8FB5KGditAnfI2cz5bNKx2bmILkzqlYyWU4F5_8&m=dQrknORGHDPasLsmpCdoa002TaByuL4RkK52wXC4bik&s=ia5a71pIJ1QqccB7_S7ZCIyE-aOfugdyjcIBQPhJGg4&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(161,132,92);text-decoration:none">CBS News</span></a>: </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">The <b>U.S. Capitol Police Department is on the verge of running out of money unless Congress acts on a nearly $2 billion supplemental security funding bill,</b> three sources confirmed to CBS News. The embattled agency, which has seen a significant dip in officer morale in the wake of the deadly January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is also facing a manpower shortage because officers have been working overtime.</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><br><i>...</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">More than 150 Capitol and Metropolitan Police officers were injured while engaging with rioters.</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><br><i>In May, <b>the House narrowly approved legislation providing $1.9 billion to bolster security at the Capitol, despite unified Republican oppositio</b>n. The bill, which would also backfill overtime pay and shore up mental health services for officers...</i><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">House Republicans have spent months attacking the police – <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.axios.com_capitol-2Driot-2Dpolice-2Dofficer-2Dandrew-2Dclyde-2Dd11bc95e-2D52d9-2D4ecd-2D8667-2D5312290a63db.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=L93KkjKsAC98uTvC4KvQDdTDRzAeWDDRmG6S3YXllH0&r=9Qyd8FB5KGditAnfI2cz5bNKx2bmILkzqlYyWU4F5_8&m=dQrknORGHDPasLsmpCdoa002TaByuL4RkK52wXC4bik&s=YYk3ihL__btX0OhPKxogsrBO3GmEbU-kTG_OJR2FMb0&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(161,132,92);text-decoration:none">refusing to shake their hands</span></a>, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian.com_media_2021_jun_28_chris-2Dwallace-2Drepublicans-2Ddefunding-2Dthe-2Dpolice-2Dfox-2Dnews-2Dcongressman-2Djim-2Dbanks&d=DwMFaQ&c=L93KkjKsAC98uTvC4KvQDdTDRzAeWDDRmG6S3YXllH0&r=9Qyd8FB5KGditAnfI2cz5bNKx2bmILkzqlYyWU4F5_8&m=dQrknORGHDPasLsmpCdoa002TaByuL4RkK52wXC4bik&s=dzmkBBcKcDQlG9gddVsIm-wdMprsA1ZwOg6Ip1CJFrI&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(161,132,92);text-decoration:none">voting to defund local police departments</span></a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/congressional-gold-medal-house-vote/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(161,132,92);text-decoration:none">even opposing Congressional Gold Medals for officers</span></a> who protected the Capitol during the January 6th insurrection. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9.6pt 0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,37,37);letter-spacing:0.4pt">Much of the House Republican Conference voted to <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nbcnews.com_politics_congress_house-2Drepublicans-2Dwho-2Dopposed-2Dcovid-2Daid-2Dstill-2Dsee-2Dfunds-2Dflow-2Dn1272727&d=DwMFaQ&c=L93KkjKsAC98uTvC4KvQDdTDRzAeWDDRmG6S3YXllH0&r=9Qyd8FB5KGditAnfI2cz5bNKx2bmILkzqlYyWU4F5_8&m=dQrknORGHDPasLsmpCdoa002TaByuL4RkK52wXC4bik&s=5Gg8mT-LFNm1zoYvUJ-tvgJKy7Ptjo1eybzy96hDnbg&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(161,132,92);text-decoration:none">defund their own police departments</span></a>.  Now, they're trying to defund the heroes who stopped the January 6th insurrection. </span></p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.net" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.net</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div>=======================================================<br>
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