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War money wrapped into bargain bill
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 09, 2007 12:11am |
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| News Date | Saturday, December 8, 2007 06:10:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In exchange for Iraq war spending that President Bush wants, House Democratic leaders are working on a half-trillion-dollar spending package that includes about $11 billion in domestic spending, including measures on emergency drought relief for the Southeast and the subprime mortgage crisis, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Friday.
Absent from the complicated deal would be a timeline for the withdrawal of combat forces, which the president has refused to accept, Hoyer told a meeting of The Washington Post's editorial board.
If the bargain becomes law, it will be the third time since Democrats took control of Congress that they failed to force Bush to change course in Iraq and continued to fund a war that they have repeatedly vowed to end. But it would also be the clearest instance yet of the president bowing to a Democratic demand for more money for domestic priorities, an increase that he had promised to reject. |
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