Senate approves $70 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

[superconnected]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate gave President Bush a big win on Iraq Tuesday night as it passed a massive $555 billion spending bill combining funding for 14 Cabinet departments with $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.

But Bush's GOP allies were divided over whether the omnibus appropriations bill represented a win for the party in a months long battle with Democrats over domestic agency budgets.

In rapid succession, the Senate cast two votes to approve the hybrid spending bill. By a 70-25 vote, the Senate approved the Iraq and Afghanistan war funds - without restrictions that Democrats had insisted on for weeks.

Senators followed with a 76-17 vote to agree to a bundle of 11 annual appropriations bills funding domestic agencies and the foreign aid budget for the budget year that began Oct. 1.


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[superconnected]

1. Pelosi, the ONLY honorable thing to do is step down now.

[LisaM]

3. What does Pelosi have to do with the Senate? n/t

[superconnected]

6. yes true BUT they're all in it together.

The dems are not working for us.

"By a 70-25 vote, the Senate approved the Iraq and Afghanistan war funds - without restrictions that Democrats had insisted on for weeks."

[superconnected]

9. btw:

"The House is slated Wednesday to ready the entire package for Bush, though the vote will be only on the Iraq portion of the measure. That vote would cap a parliamentary dance choreographed to ease the overall package through a chamber split between Democratic opponents of the Iraq war and GOP foes of the domestic spending portion of the bill.
"

So I'm a day early...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Well, at least they didn't hand Bush a blank check.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3864224&mesg_id=3864224

:grr:

[superconnected]

4. He doesn't need one. They'll approve any check he writes.

[Rageneau]

5. HOO-AH!! We get to kill more babies! USA! USA! USA!

Who says you can't have guns AND butter?

[izzie]

7. Why can't they vote no money? What is it with the Dem?

Or is it just haw I look at things? Looks so easy to me.

[superconnected]

8. You are correct all they had to do was vote against it.

But the didn't.

What other proof do we need of where they stand.

[superconnected]

10. oh, I nealy forgot, MERRY CHRISTMAS HALIBURTON!!!!

and with a massive 555 Billion buget approved, Merry Christmas to the "_conservatives_" too. You IDIOTS. PS. Do any of you conservative IDIOTS still believe in smaller government and cutting spending. Yes, I suspect you IDIOTS can't put 1 and 1 together to get 2, so still do. Fucking imbeciles.

[izzie]

13. Well greed has done other govt. in

Lets hope this greedy stuff will burn its self out and soon. Funny it comes along with the God people. We seem to go through this stage every so many years with God and Greed. Do you think it mean some thing?

[Shipwack]

11. Whew! Thank Goodness!

At least they're keeping the powder dry...

:argh:

::sigh:: Why do I even post... nothing matters, no matter what we do or say.When I post all I do is delude myself for a little while that I matter.

[ericgtr]

12. Unbelievable

Today, I am ashamed to be an American. My party affiliation is changing to Independent, I've had it with the whole fucking lot of them. x(

[Thothmes]

14. In addition to this travisty

there is 14 billion in ear marks in the Bill. I thought the new Democratic Congress said that they were going to deal with this problem. Appears their answer to the problem was to step to the head of the line for the handouts.