Iraq pullout plan fails again in Senate
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Frustrated U.S. Senate Democrats failed to pass legislation on Friday to force a troop pullout from Iraq in nine months, capping a week of defeats that reinforced the chamber's divide over the war.
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Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, fighting for political survival, angrily rejected Republic challenger John Thune&#39;s claim Sunday that he had emboldened the enemy in Iraq and undermined US troop morale.
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A long-awaited Senate showdown on the war in Iraq was shut down before it even started yesterday, when nearly all Republicans voted to stop the Senate from considering a resolution opposing President Bush's plan to send 21,500 additional combat troops into battle.
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President George W. Bush's Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008 to cap a rare round-the-clock U.S. Senate debate.
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A weary and sharply divided U.S. Senate headed on Wednesday toward a showdown vote on an apparently doomed Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a proposal to give American troops in Iraq more rest from battle, as Democrats renewed their attempts to change President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.
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A Senate showdown on Iraq loomed Monday as Republicans said they would block a measure stating opposition to President Bush's plan to send additional troops into the nearly four-year-old war.
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A bill in the House of Representatives rebuking President George W. Bush's Iraq policy will voice support for US troops while expressing disapproval with Bush's plan to &quot;escalate&quot; America's military presence there, leading Democrats said.
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The president rejected the idea of withdrawing most combat troops before their work is done, saying the failure to establish a stable and secure Iraq would haunt Americans for years.
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The White House rejected on Sunday a proposal by two influential Republican senators that would require President George W. Bush to plan for a possible troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of the year.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected on Monday another prominent senator's call for a military strike against Iran, saying a U.S. attack would destabilize the Middle East.
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A weary and sharply divided U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic effort that would have brought all American combat troops out of Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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By JIM MYERS  WASHINGTON -- The Senate rejected a proposal Wednesday by Sen. Jim Inhofe designed to streamline the permitting process for refineries and offer economic incentives to Indian tribes and communities hit by base closings to build such facilities.
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Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic measure which would have required President George W. Bush to pull most combat troops out of Iraq by the end of April 2008.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned yesterday that a new Democratic effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq war resolution would meet the same fate as two previous efforts to limit President Bush's authority: blocked by procedural obstacles, unless Democrats relent to GOP terms.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s administration Wednesday thwarted the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit the numbers of troops ready for deployment.
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US Senate foes of President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy are making a new attempt to hold a symbolic censure vote, one day after the president's plan to increase US troop strength in Iraq was repudiated by the House.