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Home Front: Politix
Rep. Hoyer: Vote on Iraq Will Be Limited
2007-02-12
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House vote on Iraq this week will be limited to the question of supporting President Bush's troop escalation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Sunday. Hoyer's comment drew a vehement objection from House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, who said House Democrats had promised to allow a vote this week on a Republican alternative opposing a cutoff of money for the war. Hoyer, D-Md., said such a vote would occur later.

"Live up to your word," Boehner told Hoyer. Democrats, Boehner said, "won't even let us have a substitute. ... Give us a vote this week."
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Republican alternative would be voted on 30 to 45 days from now.

Hmmm…last week the US House debated contentious issues such as honoring a collegiate volleyball team and the renaming of a Federal Court House in Duluth. And now that Congress has completed those bits of important legislation one assumes the Democrat leaders recognize they have enough open calendar to have a full debate on U.S. participation in the Iraq war that would include a Republican alternative. It might even give them a chance to fulfill their much-ballyhooed “Spirit of Cooperation” pledge. Then again, maybe the Democrats have been less then sincere with all their rhetoric about how the midterm elections was a their mandate to have an open debate on the most important issue concerning the American electorate. Gosh…Do ya think?
Posted by: DepotGuy   2007-02-12 11:17  

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