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The House will vote next week on a small bundle of government spending bills focused on the nation s security, which will include funding for President Trump s planned wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. House Republicans were unable to reach consensus on a full omnibus encompassing all 12 stanley cup spending bills so instead, they plan to vote on four, which would fund the Pen stanley botella tagon, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Energy and the legislative branch. While the Homeland Security bill isn t attached, House Re stanley cups publicans plan to add an amendment stemming from the measure that would provide money for the wall. The funding for physical barrier construction along the southern border meets the White House s 2018 request at $1.57 billion, which includes $784 million for 32 miles of new border fencing in the Rio Grande Valley, $498 million for 28 miles of new levee wall in that region, $251 million for 14 miles of secondary fencing in San Diego and $38 million for program planning and development. The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee advanced the DHS spending bill with those provisions earlier this week, but Democrats are opposed to any wall funding. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California, the ranking member on the Appropriations DHS subcommittee, blasted the GOP s move to tie the wall funding to the spending package on Wednesday. It is unconscionable to tie frivolous wall funding to this minibus bill that helps protect our country and su Fenr Another Take On Compassion
WASHINGTON Sgt. Rebecca Havrilla, the lone female member of a bomb squad in eastern Afghanistan, was allegedly raped days before she was supposed to go back to the United States. The rape, she said, was the ironic icing on the cake. What started in basic training in January of 2004 with sexual jokes, innuendoes and simulated sexual play escalated to groping, slapping, harassment and ultimately ended with a rape before she left Afghanistan in September 2009, she said. stanley mug Havrilla s story gets worse before it gets better: she ran into her alleged rapist at a shop on Fort Leonard Wood; says she was told by a military chaplain that it must have been God s will for her to be raped ; and says a friend found pictures of the attack on a pornography website. Havrilla finally reported her case only to have it dismissed by her military commanders. On Wednesday, however, Havrilla is testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel and share her story. Havrilla s story is one of many and the statistics are grim: an estimated 19,000 service members experience sexual assault a year, according to the Department of Defense s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office SAPRO . Eighty percent of stanley termosy military sexual assaults have gone unreported. In 2011, a mere 3,192 cases were reported but only 1,516 of those cases stanley mugg were considered actionable.Prosecution rates are even lower: a reported 8 percent of case