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House Approves $106B Bill to Fund Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
By Perry Bacon Jr.
The House today passed a $106 billion bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through September, as House Democrats backed President Obama despite misgivings among the ranks about his strategy in Afghanistan.
The 226 to 202 vote came after Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner had called some reluctant Democrats during the day imploring them to back the bill, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had strongly pressed her colleagues in a closed-door meeting to vote for the bill in a show of support for Obama, even if they oppose his strategy for increasing troops in Afghanistan. In the end, 221 Democrats voted for the bill, while 32 opposed it.
All but five Republicans opposed the bill after the White House inserted money to fund a line of credit for the International Monetary Fund, which the GOP said amounted to a "global bailout."
"We are in the process of wrapping up the wars. The president needed our support," said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who had earlier said he opposed the war funding but voted for it in the end. "But the substance still sucks."
The Senate could pass the war bill later this week, although some senators are threatening to oppose a provision in the bill that provides $1 billion for the so-called "cash for clunkers" program. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate has complained that the House version of that program, which gives people vouchers of up to $4,500 to trade in their old cars and buy new ones with higher fuel efficiency, does not require high enough gas mileage for the new cars purchased.
Along with the car program and the IMF funding, the $106 billion also provides $7.7 billion to combat an outbreak of pandemic flu. But Congress stripped out $80 million the administration had asked for to start the process of closing the detainee facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And Congress added a requirement that the administration produce
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House Approves $106B Bill to Fund Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
By Perry Bacon Jr.
The House today passed a $106 billion bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through September, as House Democrats backed President Obama despite misgivings among the ranks about his strategy in Afghanistan.
The 226 to 202 vote came after Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner had called some reluctant Democrats during the day imploring them to back the bill, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had strongly pressed her colleagues in a closed-door meeting to vote for the bill in a show of support for Obama, even if they oppose his strategy for increasing troops in Afghanistan. In the end, 221 Democrats voted for the bill, while 32 opposed it.
All but five Republicans opposed the bill after the White House inserted money to fund a line of credit for the International Monetary Fund, which the GOP said amounted to a "global bailout."
"We are in the process of wrapping up the wars. The president needed our support," said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who had earlier said he opposed the war funding but voted for it in the end. "But the substance still sucks."
The Senate could pass the war bill later this week, although some senators are threatening to oppose a provision in the bill that provides $1 billion for the so-called "cash for clunkers" program. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate has complained that the House version of that program, which gives people vouchers of up to $4,500 to trade in their old cars and buy new ones with higher fuel efficiency, does not require high enough gas mileage for the new cars purchased.
Along with the car program and the IMF funding, the $106 billion also provides $7.7 billion to combat an outbreak of pandemic flu. But Congress stripped out $80 million the administration had asked for to start the process of closing the detainee facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And Congress added a requirement that the administration produce
DAN AND GARY…………..I THINK YOU CAN GET OUR NEW CAR READY PRETTY SOON BOB CALL ME
