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Dems warn Bush on Iraq funding
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 06, 2006 04:42pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | House Democrats sent a strong signal to President Bush on Tuesday that they will attach conditions he is likely to find unpalatable, perhaps even unacceptable, to his anticipated request early next year for another $100 billion or more to pay for the war in Iraq.
At the least, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and other leaders of the incoming Democratic majority said they will seek to enforce greater transparency for the billions of dollars in contracts that the Pentagon pays private firms to perform numerous functions in Iraq.
Amid reports of corruption and missing funds from government contracts, the Democrats also want to establish a special committee patterned after the World War II-era panel that Sen. Harry Truman chaired to root out waste and fraud in war contracting. |
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