I thought installments were payments on an account and military bases were installations.

Another "stop-gap spending measure"?

EVERY CONGRESS PERSON should be ashamed of their incompetentence, or if they are not the problem, they need to stand up and point fingers to identify who is!

Annual appropriations bills are probably THE most important job these clowns have to do. The new fiscal year starts every year on 1 October, so it is not a surprise, crisis or unforseen obligation.

Instead, they diddle about renaming post offices, earmarking huge sums for their special interest groups, grandstand before cameras, hold meaningless hearings where they hear nothing but their own empty rhetoric. And they pander to voters, puff their meager accomplishments and lie profusely to fool voters into voting for them again.

Worse, they lack the intelligence or guts to ever end any wasteful program that does not work, or eliminate laws or rules that hinder freedom, iniative or investment that our country desperately needs.

I wonder what idiots are giving Congress a 9% approval rating. That is way too high.

It didn't mention anywhere anything about funding for upgrading Security at the Deseret Chemical Depot! Obama in his debate speech the other night said we need to "hardened" chemical sites to prevent attacks from Terrorists and DCD is far from being hardened! Security out there is a joke!! So what do we do, wait for another Terrorist attack before we do anything, is there STILL no prevention, have we STILL not learned our lesson?!!!

Ask yourself who you voted for, and if you voted for the SAME PERSON, you're part of the problem.

They are using MY MONEY and I am sick of it.

What the heck does a public library in Brigham City have to do with the national defense?

Good question - The Brigham Library received a Department of Homeland Security FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant to retrofit the historic structure against earthquakes. The reason its lumped-in with the defense spending, is becuase the House and senate Democrats, who run Congress for the past two years, didn't follow "regular order" (because they were afraid of opening-up votes on opening-up public lands for oil drilling).. and instead, lumped Defense appropriations, Homeland Security Appropriations, and Military Construction/Veterans Appropriations into one big huge bill, along with the "continuing appropriations resolution' which keeps the rest of the government running at FY'08 levels until early March, 2009. In essence, the Democrats "punted the ball" until the next Administration. Profiles in Courage, all.