Shorter Pete Hoekstra:

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Hoekstra told us Monday he voted against the measure because he believes it was "a poorly written bill" that represents "an unprecedented expansion of U.S. law" since, in the congressman's understanding, it could provoke a diplomatic crisis if it resulted in foreign nationals working under contract for the U.S. government being subject to U.S. law. Hoekstra added he does not believe this bill has any chance of making it through the Senate or to the president's desk because of the deficiencies he describes.

The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, MEJA, would tighten rules on military contractors (paid mercenaries, i.e. Blackwater). Pete Hoekstra voted no. Translation: Betsy DeVos told me to vote No, and she writes the checks, so I voted no. Just for the record, the vote was 339-30, a bipartisan veto-proof majority.