national legislative director for the Disabled American Veterans. "Congress needs to step up to the plate and realize these programs are needed by the men and women who served this country or in some cases by their survivors."

Violante said he was particularly irked that some lawmakers' moved to insert Iran sanctions language into the bill.

"You don't mind them debating the merits of the legislation ... but when they start taking it off track, it really gets frustrating," he said.

For now, he said, all there is to do is get back to work trying to get new legislation before Congress. The DAV met with lawmakers earlier this week to set out its priorities for the coming year, and other veterans groups will be doing the same next week.

Rieckhoff saidThe French establishment will choose one of two fake “conservatives” to put up against the Front National’s Marine le Pen in the 2017 presidential election: Alain Juppé, a convicted embezzler who had been barred from holding public office, and François Fillon, an open supporter of the Islamic colonization of France.

Juppé was convicted in 2004 of embezzling public funds, sentenced to prison, and barred from holding public office for ten years, while Fillon personally inaugurated France’s largest mosque in 2010, and at the opening ceremony, spoke glowingly of the Islamic colonization of that country.

The move to put the two fake conservatives forward was taken after opinion polls showed that the till then preferred “conservative” candidate, former president Nicolas Sarkozy, would be utterly defeated by Le Pen.

As a result, Sarkozy