US Senate adds Iraq war money to huge budget bill


	US Senate adds Iraq war money to huge budget bill

wjbuntz

12-18-2007 9:55 PM

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<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/7fc15c80-0fd4-42b0-9588-2092b5c2252c/3D36A134-928D-4A6B-AFD2-64CE17FF86CF/" 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.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html" href="http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html"><P> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Tuesday
moved toward approving more than $500 billion to keep the
government operating through September 2008 and meeting
President Bush's demand for new Iraq war funds.</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.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html"><P> By a vote of 70-25, the Senate attached a Republican
amendment adding $40 billion for the war in Iraq to the fiscal
2008 spending bill. The money would not be saddled with any of
the conditions Democrats have sought for ending combat, now
nearing five years.</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.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html"><P> "We need to pass this spending bill, with troop funds,
without any strings and without any further delay," Senate
Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said.</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.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html"><P> The vote came after the White House issued a statement
warning Bush would veto the bill if it didn't have the
unrestricted war funding.</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.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2007/12/18/2007-12-19T015111Z_01_N18486492_RTRIDST_0_USA-CONGRESS-FUNDING.html"><P> When coupled with about $30 billion the House
 approved Monday in additional funds for
Afghanistan, Bush would have a new $70 billion "bridge fund" to
wage war in the two countries well into 2008, his final full
year in office.</P></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/3D36A134-928D-4A6B-AFD2-64CE17FF86CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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