{"id":98151,"date":"2018-01-31T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=98151"},"modified":"2018-01-31T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:25:23","slug":"latta-votes-for-military-funding-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/31\/latta-votes-for-military-funding-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta votes for military funding measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined a bipartisan majority of his House of\u00a0Representative\u00a0colleagues in voting to pass the annual Department of Defense\u00a0appropriations bill to fund the military, provide a pay raise for troops, and improve combat readiness.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time a FY2018 defense funding bill has passed the House, but the U.S. Senate has not acted to pass the legislation. The bill provides a 2.4-percent increase for members of the military, the largest increase in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsuring our\u00a0service members have the tools they need to be successful should be one of the utmost priorities of any Congress,\u201d said Latta.\u00a0\u201cIn fact, \u2018providing for the common defence\u2019 is listed right there in the preamble to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means Congress should be passing defense appropriations bills on time that support our troops financially,\u00a0provide the military with the necessary resources to combat the threats they face, and improve combat readiness as we face an\u00a0ever-changing and dangerous world,\u201d Latta added. \u201cThe House has now acted three times to fund our military, and\u00a0I encourage the Senate to get to work and approve this must-pass legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined a bipartisan majority of his House of\u00a0Representative\u00a0colleagues in voting to pass the annual Department of Defense\u00a0appropriations bill to fund the military, provide a pay raise for troops, and improve combat readiness. This is the third time a FY2018 defense funding bill has passed the House, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 09:12:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}