In blow to Democrats, US Senate kills anti-war bill
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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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A pair of Democratic efforts to tie passage of a far-reaching budget plan with an end to the war in Iraq failed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. One plan had troops coming home within nine months and the other called for a year. The 1,482-page bill does have requests for about 9,000 pet projects that lawmakers want.
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The Senate rejected Democratic efforts to boost anti-terrorism spending for big cities Tuesday and approved legislation financing the Homeland Security Department next year.
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Democrats in the Senate planned to begin debating on Wednesday a resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, but Republicans made clear they opposed the measure and would try to prevent its passage.
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The Senate voted on Tuesday to bring back President Bush's immigration reform bill from the dead, but any of the two dozen amendments now to be debated could kill the deal for this year.
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President Bush and his Senate allies will kill a Sept. 11 antiterror bill if Congress sends it to the White House with a provision to let airport screeners unionize
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A tenuous compromise to overhaul the nation's immigration laws collapsed tonight when senators from both parties refused to cut off debate and move to a final vote, handing the unlikely alliance of Democratic leaders and President Bush a setback on a major domestic priority.
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The White House expressed opposition on Friday to any attempt by the U.S. Senate to revise the 2002 resolution that President George W. Bush used to go to war in Iraq.
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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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A bipartisan resolution repudiating President George W. Bush's decision to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Monday, dealing a serious setback to critics of the war.
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A move by Democrats to give US troops in Iraq more home leave is blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
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The Senate yesterday rejected a nine-month timetable for bringing most troops home from Iraq, yet another legislative defeat for Democrats in what is shaping up as a losing battle to force President Bush to end the war.
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Congress plunged into divisive election-year debate on the Iraq war Thursday as the U.S. military death toll reached 2,500. The Senate soundly rejected a call to withdraw combat troops by year&#039;s end, and House Republicans laid the groundwork for their own vote.
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Senate Democrats halted their quest to change President Bush's war strategy yesterday after Republicans blocked a proposal to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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US Senate Democrats, thwarted in their bid to force a debate on President George W. Bush's planned US troop buildup in Iraq, are expected to step up their pressure on the administration in order to force it to change its strategy in the war.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed a war funding bill with billions of dollars for homeland security, healthcare, farms, New Orleans levees, home heating, and other causes.
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Determined to challenge President Bush, Senate Democrats are drafting legislation to limit the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq, effectively revoking the broad authority Congress granted in 2002, officials said Thursday.