Last week we passed along a report from Joshua Ruebner about his efforts to attend the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and
Related Programs “mark-up” session on the FY2010 budget. He was interested because they were supposed to discuss the United States sending Israel $2.775 billion in weapons for FY2010. Unfortunately, he wasn't even allowed in to the session.
Well, yesterday Ruebner tried again. The budget is now in front of the full House Appropriations committee, but Ruebner, and other US citizens wanting to see how their tax money is being spent, were not allowed in again. Here's a brief video that was shot after waiting to get in for two hours:
In the end, the House Appropriations Committee voted to recommend $2.775 billion in military aid for Israel without any debate. The one bright spot is that when a few observers were finally allowed in the room, this is what they found:
