After Iraq Measures Stall, Reid Turns to Appropriations to Influence War

[babylonsister]

After Iraq Measures Stall, Reid Turns to Appropriations to Influence War
By Patrick Yoest, CQ Staff


After failing again to put the Senate on record against President Bush’s Iraq War policy, Majority Leader Harry Reid pledged to resume the debate soon and to proceed independently of House Democrats.

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said the next round of the Senate’s Iraq debate would come during consideration of a supplemental war spending measure “somewhere late in April.”

A three-day Senate debate over Bush’s war policy ended Thursday when the Senate ended consideration of a bill (S 2634) sponsored by Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold that would require the president to report to Congress on “the global strategy of the United States to combat and defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates.”

Reid said he will confer with other Democrats next week on a next move. Attaching Iraq policy riders to spending bills makes sense, he argued, because of the war’s growing cost.

Reid added that he would not be deterred if House Democratic leaders decide to keep Iraq riders off spending bills. “What they do, we don’t have to do,” he said.

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[ananda]

1. You know what annoys me, no, actually makes me livid???

It's both Reeps and Dems suddenly getting
feisty just as elections loom.. after three
plus years of cravening and caving to Bushinc.

It seems a bit specious and a bit too little
too late to me.