Tag: House
Posted on Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 06:01:34 PM EST
Tags: Iraq, Senate, House, Dick Durbin, Defunding (all tags)
In his latest front page entry, Markos quotes Dick Durbin saying that he will likely be unwilling to vote against the new supplemental funding the George Bush has requested.
Even opponents of the war, as Durbin calls himself, find themselves likely to vote for the extra money, he said. "When it comes to the budget, I face a dilemma that some of my colleagues do," he said.In other words, Dubin plans to do nothing.He voted against the war "but felt that I should always provide the resources for the troops in the field," Durbin said. "But it's now reached a point where we have got to change the way we appropriate this money."
Though he said he is likely to approve the increased request -- it would accompany a pending request for an additional $147 billion in war funding -- Durbin said he would work to attach conditions to it that would require troops to begin coming home in the spring.
Recent history tells us that we should not be surprised. Nor, indeed, should we look for the Senate to end the war.
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