Secretary of State John Kerry last month secretly sent $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Muslim Brotherhood-controlled Egypt, waiving the restrictions put in place by Congress to withhold such aid unless the country could meet certain democracy standards.

“Under U.S. law, for the $1.3 billion to flow the secretary of state must certify that the Egyptian government ‘is supporting the transition to civilian government, including holding free and fair elections, implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association and religion, and due ---process of law’,” Reuters reports.
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Several members of Congress said this week that Egypt’s sentencing of American NGO workers, who were there to help Egypt build up its civil society and to promote democracy, flew in the face of that very law, meaning that Egypt should not get the money.

Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, told The Daily Beast that it was “very alarming that no public statement was made by the secretary or the Department of State more broadly in conjunction with the waiving of these conditions.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/...3-billion-gift/

Our Congress is becoming more and more irrelevant as this administration makes all the decisions without fear of any repercussions.

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Our Congress is becoming more and more irrelevant as this administration makes all the decisions without fear of any repercussions.

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Yup.

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Our Congress is becoming more and more irrelevant as this administration makes all the decisions without fear of any repercussions.

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Yup.

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Our congress long ago ceded their power to the executive, judiciary, and fourth branches of government, and congress keeps funding the recipients of their power.

Them must have been some huge carrots and sticks !

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Our Congress is becoming more and more irrelevant as this administration makes all the decisions without fear of any repercussions.

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Yup.

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Our congress long ago ceded their power to the executive, judiciary, and fourth branches of government, and congress keeps funding the recipients of their power.

Them must have been some huge carrots and sticks !

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"Huge" enough to overcome whatever shredded bits of soul and conscience they had left upon arriving in DC.