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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate began debating legislation to bolster America's security on Wednesday with the White House threatening a veto because one part would extend union protection to 45,000 airport workers [...]
The overall bill would implement many of the stalled recommendations of the bipartisan commission created after the September 11 attacks.
The measure refines other recommendations and imposes new ones, such as the labor provision, and would let state and local governments share information with federal authorities, build better communication systems and provide grants to help high-risk areas prepare for disasters.
But White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said if the labor provision remains in the legislation, "the president's senior advisers would recommend he veto the bill."
Thirty-six Republican senators sent a letter to Bush on Tuesday saying they would provide the needed votes to sustain a veto in the 100-member Senate.
The other day I posted some of this and stated that the Democrats should just drop that union part of the bill and get the remainder passed.
There is time afterwards to worry about the airport workers getting unionization. The 36 Republicans who say that they will support a veto makes it impossible for the Democrats to get this passed before it even leaves for the Presidents desk, so drop it now and make another version of a union bill. Make it a bill which will put those 36 Republicans and the White House in a very bad spot if the bill is not passed.
As it is at this point in time, the Democrats will just be beating their heads into a brick wall as they did with the non-binding resolution's for Iraq and our troops.
Come on Democrats. Don't be so stupid!
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