House Dems Again Vow to Block War Funding Without Troop Withdrawals

By Carlo Muñoz / November 20, 2007 at 5:00 AM
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) vowed again today to block any wartime supplemental funding request until the White House agrees to guidelines for troop withdrawals in Iraq. "The money is not the issue, the lack of a plan is," he said during a press briefing on Capitol Hill. Alongside House Appropriations defense subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D-PA), Obey said he "would be happy" to OK President Bush's $194 billion wartime spending bill for fiscal year 2008 if that...

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