{"id":3678,"date":"2007-06-28T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T01:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/house-narrowly-defeats-measure-to-defund-vice-presidents-office\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T19:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T02:21:53","slug":"house-narrowly-defeats-measure-to-defund-vice-presidents-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/house-narrowly-defeats-measure-to-defund-vice-presidents-office\/","title":{"rendered":"House Narrowly Defeats Measure to Defund Vice President&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/politicsNews\/idUSN2836805120070628\">just narrowly defeated <\/a>an amendment to deny funds to operate Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s office.  Cheney had insisted that his office is exempt from Executive Department oversight by arguing that he is not part of that department.  Rep. Rahm Emanuel proposed the amendment as a counter to that incredible claim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2007\/roll596.xml\">The measure was defeated 209-217<\/a>, with most Republicans and 24 Democrats siding with Cheney.  <strong>GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina voted in favor of defunding Cheney&#8217;s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emanuel tried to attach the amendment to a bill funding the Treasury Department and other agencies that could have faced a veto by President Bush. The overall bill includes a salary increase for House members that would bring their annual pay to nearly $170,000 next year.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to kill funds for Cheney&#8217;s vice presidential office and the government-owned mansion he lives in came on the same day Bush said he would not provide documents being subpoenaed by Democrats in Congress related to the firings of federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives just narrowly defeated an amendment to deny funds to operate Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s office. Cheney had insisted that his office is exempt from Executive Department oversight by arguing that he is not part of that department. Rep. Rahm Emanuel proposed the amendment as a counter to that incredible claim. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}