<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5194680-f577-403f-9258-e4cde9770333/0F59FF4C-C5DF-4BB3-82E2-27E7D21F5071/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" href="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1"><DIV class="author">By ANDREW TAYLOR </DIV><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self"><IMG width="180" height="120" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.vimg.net/darwin/cms/images/APNews/Top Headlines/20071219/Budget Battle_20071219_e4fdc758-9418-4102-9a4d-c73806c23bfb_180x210.jpg" class="thumbnail3" /></A><P>The Senate voted Tuesday to provide $70 billion for U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a victory to President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill.</P><P>The 70-25 roll call paved the way for the Senate to pass a $555 billion omnibus appropriations bill combining the war funding with the budgets for 14 Cabinet agencies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">Bush was ready to sign the bill, assuming the war funding clears the House on Wednesday. Democrats again failed to win votes to force removal of U.S. troops or set a nonbinding target to remove most troops by the end of next year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">"Even those of us who have disagreed on this war have always</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">agreed on one thing: Troops in the field will not be left without the resources they need," said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">The year-end budget dea</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071219\Budget_Battle_20071219.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1"> disappointed GOP purists who complained the bill spends too much money and contains about 9,000 pet projects sought by members of Congress.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0F59FF4C-C5DF-4BB3-82E2-27E7D21F5071/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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