Feingold, Reid To Propose Cutting Off Iraq Funding
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 9th, 2007 5:59 am by HL
FEINGOLD TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION IN NEW SPENDING BILL TO END WAR, CUT OFF FUNDING
Brad Blog
Excerpt:
Bill Supported by Majority Leader Reid, 8 Other Senate Co-Sponsors, to be Offered as Amendment to New Iraq War Supplemental
Exceptions for Funds Cutoff to Be Made for Fighting Terrorists, Security for U.S. Troops and Infrastructure, Training of Iraqi Security Services…
In a statement just sent to The BRAD BLOG, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) says he is prepared to up the ante in the fight with the White House in light of Bush’s spending bill veto, and will be proposing that war funding be cut off by a date certain as part of the next spending bill sent to the White House.
Feingold adds that his previously proposed legislation, known as the Feingold-Reid Bill (S. 1077), had a number of co-sponsors already on board in the Senate, and that the same language would be used for his proposed amendment to the Senate’s new supplemental spending bill.
His statement just in to The BRAD BLOG:
“With brave Americans fighting and dying for a failed policy in Iraq, members of Congress shouldn’t delay action to end this misguided war for weeks or even months just for the sake of political comfort. That is why, when the Senate takes up the Iraq supplemental, I plan to offer the Feingold-Reid bill as an amendment to force the President to safely redeploy our troops by March 31, 2008 at which point funding for the war would be cut off.â€