{"id":2224265,"date":"2024-04-18T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/space-lasers-conscription-and-neville-chamberlain-foreign-aid-bill-amendments-lead-to-competitive-trolling-from-representatives\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T18:16:09","slug":"space-lasers-conscription-and-neville-chamberlain-foreign-aid-bill-amendments-lead-to-competitive-trolling-from-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/space-lasers-conscription-and-neville-chamberlain-foreign-aid-bill-amendments-lead-to-competitive-trolling-from-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign aid bill amendments spark heated exchanges among representatives over space lasers, conscription, and echoes of Neville Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspace-lasers-conscription-and-neville-chamberlain-foreign-aid-bill-amendments-lead-to-competitive-trolling-from-representatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224265&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House members \u2063are competing through amendments \u200dto bills supporting \u2064Ukraine and Israel aid. Marjorie Taylor Greene sparks controversy \u200cwith unconventional additions, including a proposal for conscripting those in favor of the Ukraine bill into the Ukrainian military. Other amendments involve space lasers for\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-biden-help-unite-america\/\" title=\"Can Biden Help Unite America?\">border protection<\/a> and provocative renamings.\u200b Tensions rise\u2062 as representatives clash \u200bover these unconventional\u200c proposals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House members are looking to out-troll one another through amendments to bills funding aid to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ukraine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 171 amendments have been <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/bill\/118\/hr-8035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"introduced\">introduced<\/a> to add to the bills, with most of them serious. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (R-GA) began the unserious additions on Wednesday, introducing an amendment that would require anyone who voted in favor of the Ukraine bill to be conscripted, or enrolled compulsorily, into the Ukrainian military. She has added nearly two dozen amendments.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Concept art of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-trump-religious-groups-begin-turning-up-heat-on-gop-to-take-action-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" title=\"Pro-Trump, Religious Groups Begin Turning Up Heat On GOP To Take Action On Marjorie Taylor Greene\">space laser<\/a>, left, and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain standing alongside German dictator Adolf Hitler, right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are some of the oddest amendments to the aid bills, which seek to give $61 billion to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Use of Israeli funds to finance space lasers to protect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">southern border<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Greene introduced an <a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/GREENE_223_xml240417175751235.pdf?_gl=1*u5jmnd*_ga*MTE3Mjg1MjMwNi4xNzEzNDI4MzEw*_ga_N4RTJ5D08B*MTcxMzQyODY4MS4xLjEuMTcxMzQyODcxOC4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"amendment\">amendment<\/a> to the Israeli funding bill to finance \u201cspace laser technology\u201d on the United States southern border, ostensibly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-is-destroying-ice-from-within-demands-end-to-mass-worksite-raids-must-focus-instead-on-exploitation-of-undocumented-workers\/\" title=\"Mayorkas Is \u2018Destroying\u2019 ICE \u2018From Within\u2019: Demands End To Mass Worksite Raids, Must Focus Instead On \u2018Exploitation\u2019 Of \u2018Undocumented Workers\u2019\">combat illegal immigration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border,\u201d the amendment reads.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment is a not-so-subtle reference to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/facebook\/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"social media post\">social media post<\/a> by Greene before she was elected, in which she voiced support for a conspiracy theory that space laser technology, financed by banking families such as the Rothschilds, was used to start wildfires in California. Though she made no reference to Judaism, critics have accused her of antisemitism over the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/GREENE_230_xml240418085645982.pdf?_gl=1*1asd0c9*_ga*MTIwNzYxMjg0MS4xNzA4MDA0ODI4*_ga_N4RTJ5D08B*MTcxMzQ1NTkyMC4zLjEuMTcxMzQ1NTkyNy4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"amendment\">amendment<\/a> introduced by the Georgia Republican called for an Iron Dome missile defense system to be built on the southern border.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Designation of Greene as \u2018Vladimir Putin\u2019s Special Envoy<\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who has openly clashed with Greene numerous times, introduced an <a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/Moskowitz%20Amendment240418084729288.pdf?_gl=1*ch4m8r*_ga*NTMzNzEwNTA5LjE2NjY5MTk2OTA.*_ga_N4RTJ5D08B*MTcxMzQ1MDk1Mi4yLjAuMTcxMzQ1MDk1Mi4wLjAuMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"amendment\">amendment<\/a> to designate her as Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s special envoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) has repeatedly attempted to block aid to Ukraine, empowering Vladimir Putin\u2019s unlawful violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity \u2026 It is the sense of Congress that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) should be<br \/>appointed Vladimir Putin\u2019s Special Envoy to the United States Congress,\u201d the amendment reads.<\/p>\n<p>Greene has also been bashed for her criticism of Ukraine by some Republicans. Former Rep. Ken Buck derisively called her \u201cMoscow Marjorie\u201d after leaving office.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Renaming Greene\u2019s office the \u2018Neville Chamberlain Room<\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n<p>Moskowitz also introduced an <a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/Moskowitz%20Amendment%202240418084702067.pdf?_gl=1*lprcch*_ga*MTIwNzYxMjg0MS4xNzA4MDA0ODI4*_ga_N4RTJ5D08B*MTcxMzQ1NTkyMC4zLjEuMTcxMzQ1ODU3Mi4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"amendment\">amendment<\/a> to rename Greene\u2019s office the \u201cNeville Chamberlain Room,\u201d a reference to the former United Kingdom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a> who oversaw the controversial appeasement policy prior to World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain is best remembered for his work on the Munich Agreement in September 1938, during which Britain, France, and Italy cleared Nazi Germany to annex the majority-ethnic German Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, without the Czechoslovaks\u2019 input. Chamberlain infamously hailed the agreement as \u201cpeace for our time.\u201d Germany annexed the rest of Czechoslovakia soon after, then invaded Poland less than a year later, launching World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain has since become a cultural symbol for figures naively seeking to appease or accommodate expansionist or non-democratic powers. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 saw a resurgence in references to the former prime minister, particularly to those skeptical of fully backing Ukraine. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Requirement for representatives voting in favor of Ukraine bill to be \u2018conscripted\u2019 into Ukrainian military<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2970178\/mtg-amendment-house-members-enlist-ukraine-vote-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"introduced\">introduced<\/a> an amendment to require the conscription into the Ukrainian military of any House members who voted in favor of the Ukraine aid bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny Member of Congress who votes in favor of this Act shall be required to conscript in the Ukrainian military,\u201d the amendment reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean if you want to fund the war, why don\u2019t you go fight in it,\u201d Greene said of the amendment. \u201cShow your support for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Prohibiting the imposition of the bill until Zelensky certifies that Donald Trump didn\u2019t seek his assistance in 2020 election<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Reps. Bob Good (R-VA) and Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced an amendment seeking to settle old scores, regarding the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the funds made available by this Act may be dispersed or otherwise allocated until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certifies in writing to Congress that President Donald John Trump did not seek President Zelenskyy\u2019s assistance in influencing the 2020 United States Presidential election,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/amendments-rules.house.gov\/amendments\/Good_Amdt._H.R.%208035240418090724839.pdf?_gl=1*pooxzc*_ga*MTIwNzYxMjg0MS4xNzA4MDA0ODI4*_ga_N4RTJ5D08B*MTcxMzQ1NTkyMC4zLjEuMTcxMzQ1ODM5MC4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"amendment\">amendment<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2019, Trump was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after a whistleblower complaint, which alleged that Trump solicited Ukraine\u2019s assistance in discrediting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden\u2019s son, during a call on which he and Zelenskyy were discussing foreign aid.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House members engage in a fierce amendment battle in bills supporting Ukraine and Israel aid. Among 171 proposed amendments, most are substantive. Marjorie Taylor Greene initiates light-hearted additions, suggesting voters wear paper masks. 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