{"id":8651,"date":"2010-12-23T00:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:08:00","slug":"congress-passes-defense-act-military-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/congress-passes-defense-act-military-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes Defense Act, Military Pay Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports that the Armed Services committees have agreed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/news-by-subject\/defense-homeland-security\/133927-armed-services-leaders-agree-to-compromise-2011-defense-authorization-bill\">&#8220;pared down&#8221; National Defense Authorization Act<\/a>.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/last-gasp-defense-bill-approved-by-congress-1.129609\">bill passed on Wednesday<\/a> was &#8220;devoid&#8221; of controversial measures, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DADT repeal, which is obviously moot;<\/li>\n<li>a second F-35 engine manufacturer; and<\/li>\n<li>the Burris Amendment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/defense-act-contains-more-than-dadt\/\">Burris Amendment<\/a> would have permitted abortions <!--more-->at military facilities, and was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/military-physicians-voice-opposition-to-abortion-mandate\/\">as strongly opposed<\/a>, if not more so, than the decision to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military.\u00a0 Its presence, however, was largely <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/26\/controversy-over-military-facility-abortions-continues\/\">overshadowed by the uproar over DADT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Passage of the 2011 NDAA would complete the annual authorization and funding cycle for the military, which has been operating in a holdover state since the fiscal year ended on October 1st.\u00a0 Included is a 1.4% pay raise for servicemembers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports that the Armed Services committees have agreed to a &#8220;pared down&#8221; National Defense Authorization Act.\u00a0 The bill passed on Wednesday was &#8220;devoid&#8221; of controversial measures, including DADT repeal, which is obviously moot; a second F-35 engine manufacturer; and the Burris Amendment. The Burris Amendment would have permitted abortions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[719,771,219,118,2],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-abortion","tag-burris-amendment","tag-dadt","tag-f-35","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}