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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 06:30 PM
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House approves $91.8 bln for wars, Gulf Coast
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday easily approved $91.8 billion President George W. Bushsought for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Gulf Coast hurricane relief, even as lawmakers voiced doubts about the efforts.
The emergency spending bill also contained language barring a state-owned Arab company, Dubai Ports World, from managing American ports, although the company has pledged to pull out of the deal that the administration initially approved.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/pl_nm/iraq_usa_spending_dc_1
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 06:31 PM
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1. So, even with poll numbers in the tank..
.. they don't seem to be worried about the next election.

Hmm...
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:26 PM
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2. Looting of America's future by war profiteers continues
No need for cost benefit analysis; bush cronies making profits, that's all that counts.
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president4aday Donating Member (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:50 PM
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3. Links to roll call & text of bill
Why are anti-war rep's like Sanders(I-Vt) & Murtha(D-Pa) voting for this crap?

<http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll065.xml|Roll Call>


<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4939:|Text of Bill>




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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:51 PM
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4. This is disgusting!
:mad:
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