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2007-04-23 Home Front: Politix
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Murtha: Two-month Iraq spending bill very likely
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 | I didn't see us look at this when it came out Friday. |
A two-month spending bill to cover the costs of the Iraq war is very likely after President Bush vetoes the current Iraq spending bill, House Defense Appropriations Chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.) said Friday.
House Democrats named their conferees at the beginning of this week and they are to meet Monday, though much of the work on the conference report has been done. The conference report is expected to include an advisory date for the withdrawal of troops, rather than the firm September 2008 deadline included in the House version of the bill.
| They can't even agree on how to cut and run. |
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he expects the bill will be sent to Bush by late next week or the following Monday. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) has begun to whip on the conference report, sending a questionnaire to members about whether theyll support it. But leadership has not given members specifics about what will be in the conference report.
| Nor will they; the Dhimmis need to be as vague as possible. |
 House Defense appropriator Jim Moran (D-Va.) said a two-month bill is intended to keep troops funded without giving the president too much latitude. Six months is probably too long, Moran said. One month it takes longer than that to pass the thing.
Moran said the legislation could not be treated like a continuing resolution, keeping funding at existing levels. The amount of money flowing to the military has to increase, he said, to cover additional spending on re-tooling the National Guard and military healthcare. Moran nodded with an expression of resignation when asked if the two-month bill, as currently envisioned, would fund the ongoing surge of U.S. combat troops in Iraq.
He was not as clear about whether the non-military spending, such as money for peanut storage, reimbursement for spinach farmers whose crops were recalled and asbestos removal in the Capitol, would be included. Moran simply said he didnt like it. I wish wed take that s--t out, Moran said. It was all put in by leadership after we wrote the bill, and it didnt get us a single vote.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) a founding member of the House Out of Iraq Caucus, said she expects there will be even more pressure to withdraw troops in two months if events in Iraq continue on their current violent course. In two months it might be really clear how bad it is, Woolsey said. 
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