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  • Senate passes $555-billion spending bill

    12/19/2007 1:31:30 AM PST · by Baladas · 9 replies · 21+ views
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 19, 2007 | Noam N. Levey
    WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats' yearlong campaign to bring the war in Iraq to an end concluded with a whimper Tuesday as the Senate failed again to pass a timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops from the conflict. As they have all year, Senate Republicans prevented the move to set dates by which the president would have to begin and complete bringing American forces home. And Democratic leaders gave in to demands from the Bush administration for more money for the war without any congressionally imposed restrictions. The latest $70 billion in war funding was incorporated into a $555-billion omnibus spending bill...