Anti-Iraq resolution tacked onto Senate budget bill

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Anti-Iraq resolution tacked onto budget bill

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 12, 2007 19:58:03 EST

Passage of a government funding bill to cover the rest of this fiscal year became more complicated Monday when opponents of the Bush administration’s Iraq strategy offered a resolution opposing the buildup of troops as an amendment to the bill.

The move by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., the former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, carries through with a promise made last week by a bipartisan group of lawmakers who were disappointed when partisan bickering prevented a vote on Iraq-related legislation last week.

Debate in the House of Representatives on Iraq policy is scheduled to begin tomorrow and last for at least three days, with votes coming on Friday. The House is considering a very short, two-paragraph resolution that opposes building up troops in Iraq but pledges support for deployed forces.

The resolution offered by Warner, and cosponsored by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the current armed services committee chairman, is a little different. It urges President Bush to consider alternatives to the deployment of 21,500 more troops that is under way. The resolution supports sending more troops into restive Anbar province to battle insurgents and suspected terrorists, but does not support having more U.S. troops involved in quelling sectarian violence in Baghdad.

The Warner-Levin resolution was debated last week but was pulled when the Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to cut off debate. Warner promised that he and his team of supporters would be back to try again.

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1. one morning parlimentarian punt...!

n/t