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| Democrats Plan to Tighten Reins on Iraq Spending |
| 2006-12-14 |
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 — Frustrated by the Bush administration’s piecemeal financing of the Iraq war, Democrats are planning to assert more control over the billions of dollars a month being spent on the conflict when they take charge of Congress in January. In interviews, the incoming Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees said they would demand a better accounting of the war’s cost and move toward integrating the spending into the regular federal budget, a signal of their intention to use the Congressional power of the purse more assertively to influence the White House’s management of the war. The lawmakers, Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, said the administration’s approach of paying for extended military operations and related activities through a series of emergency requests had inhibited Congressional scrutiny of the spending and obscured the true price of the war. |
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| #7 The word's gettin' out, USMC. We hear ya, this nation hears ya, and those who did this, will from us all soon enough! I found it refreshing the honesty of the on-the-ground realities of what the troops are seeing in Iraq vs. what the MSM is spinning in Hannity's interview w/ the troops on the ground in Ramadi a few nights ago. Follow-up with Marines on the ground there through interviews with Ollie North too the last few nights. Lather, rinse, repeat and the truth will get out. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-14 14:25 |
| #6 One observation of the Katrina disaster is that DemoCrap politicians have proven to be intellectually inferior to the military. I hope Bush allows the military to be outspoken, not like Willie C who issued a gag order to the troops. |
| Posted by: USMC6743 2006-12-14 14:20 |
| #5 Cause 3900 is not enough? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-14 11:43 |
| #4 Watch the old canard of "not enough troops" meet "tighten spending". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2006-12-14 09:22 |
| #3 In addition, budget writers do not want Pentagon spending inflated by the war to become a permanent new floor for the military budget. Yeah, God forbid the Pentagon has all it needs to fight and win a war. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-12-14 08:18 |
| #2 they better youse strategery :-) |
| Posted by: RD 2006-12-14 03:37 |
| #1 Democrats Plan to Tighten Reins on Iraq Spending the demoCraps could be trapped with the right stategery on this issue. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-12-14 03:36 |