[mabelkitty]

Congress has low approval ratings - heck Voinivich may even lose his undeserved seat. This is a blatant pork grab for votes.

[Alberta's Child]

The White House also has raised a veto threat over language in the House bill that would reopen it for further negotiations in two years if Congress fails to enact a law ensuring that every state will get back at least 95 cents for every dollar contributed by 2009, the last year of the program.

This is a lot of crap. If the White House had any principles, it would have vetoed every spending bill for the last few years that didn't include the same guarantee for income taxes, too.

[CedarDave]

Young and other members of his committee sought a much larger bill, of $375 billion, but the White House rejected his proposal to pay for it by raising by gas tax by about five cents. His committee said a bill of that magnitude would sustain 1.7 million new jobs over the six-year period.

Smart move by the President. Imagine the Rat ads if he did that (shudder...).

[optik_b]

Meanwhile the Iraqi highways are being rebuilt, with billions for reconstruction already spent on Iraqi bridges. Some of which could be used to string up coalition soldiers.

[Coleus]

I doubt it if Bush would veto (I wish he would) this bill, he owes a lot of republicans for going along with the $500 billion boondoggle prescription drug entitlement with no litmus test's bill.