Senior legislative aides said Monday that Democrats were not inclined to mount a major fight over the veto, preferring to move quickly to the economic, health care and energy issues likely to dominate the months before the November elections for president, 435 members of the House and 35 senators.
Officials said the most likely approach would be to vote to send the Pentagon measure back to the Armed Services Committee, where the disputed provision could be quickly corrected, allowing the bill to be brought back for a final vote by the end of the week.
“We hope to fix it,” an aide said.
And I repeat
He's decided not to fund the troops because the Iraqi government objects to some part of the bill.
I am withholding my approval of H.R. 1585, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008," because it would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation's reconstruction efforts and because it would undermine the foreign policy and commercial interests of the United States.
Bush is taking greater care of Iraqi assets than he ever took of ours...including the lives of the troops. He hiomself said how failure to fund the troops would endanger their lives.
What has the Iraqi government done that their interests should override those of the troops?
Or is it the commercial interests of the United Statess that is more important than keeping the troops safe?
People are wondering why he's doing it. I am not. I am saying that Congress should take the issue to the Supreme Court. Now.
With ’07 Vetoes to Confront, the House Returns to Work
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON — Congress opens its 2008 session Tuesday by returning to a crucial bill lingering from 2007, a major Pentagon policy measure that was rejected in a surprise move by President Bush late last year.
House members are scheduled to resume work on the $696 billion measure, which authorizes military programs and had been approved with broad bipartisan backing.
