REID-Promises Another Vote On Reid Feingold

[kpete]

Reid Pledges Amendments On Iraq Timeline, Readiness Standards, Feingold Bill »

In an interview with ThinkProgress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said publicly for the first time that an upcoming defense spending bill will include votes on several key Iraq amendments, including a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces.

The Senate is expected to take up the 2008 defense authorization bill in a matter of weeks. Reid said yesterday that the legislation will have amendments covering a timeline as well as readiness standards for U.S. soldiers sent into combat. He also promised another vote on the Reid-Feingold legislation that removes virtually all U.S. forces from Iraq by April 1, 2008.

Similar provisions were stripped from the emergency war spending bill signed last month by President Bush. But Reid said the new push would be different. “We’re going to focus the defense authorization bill on things that we couldn’t” with the emergency Iraq supplemental, Reid said, “because on the supplemental, the president kind of had us over the barrel, because it was the funding of the troops. He doesn’t have us over the barrel on the defense authorization.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/12/reid-iraq-2/

[bigtree]

1. still fighting . . .

of course

K&R :kick:

[ProSense]

2. So the bill to cut funding and set a deadline is a good idea?

It's the best!

[Larkspur]

3. Guess Reid read the poll numbers which showed Congress almost even with Bush

We got to keep the pressure on the Dems in Congress.

[ellenfl]

7. i believe this was the plan . . .

i read earlier (before the vote) that they did not want to seem like they were cutting funding for the troops and, if vetoed, would put the effective language in the 2008 defense bill instead. sounded reasonable to me. they can keep feet to fire on this one without being beaten up by the rw propaganda machine.

i'm still giving them the benefit of the doubt . . . because, after all, what other choice do we have? i still have faith.

ellen fl

[midnight]

4. Bring home the votes so we can bring home the troops.

This legislation cannot linger on.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. K And Fucking R!!!

:kick:

[Coexist]

6. Okay - I'll bite...

Woo hoo!!!

(please, please don't break my heart again.)