Congress debates Iraq troop plan
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Senators in the US Congress debate a bill opposing President Bush's plan to send extra troops to Iraq.
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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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The White House is ready to ask Congress for more money for President Bush's plan &#151; already hotly debated &#151; to send 21,500 new combat troops into Iraq.
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A top Democrat said Thursday he is preparing legislation that would give President Bush the war funding he wants this year, but on the condition that troops leave Iraq by the end of the year.
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Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week
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The House's resounding vote on a nonbinding resolution rejecting a 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq places Congress officially in step with growing public sentiment against the war. It also puts President Bush on the defensive going into a far more consequential confrontation over paying for the plan.
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The U.S. Senate will try again to  confront President George W. Bush over his troop buildup in  Iraq, Democratic leaders announced on Thursday, more than a  week after senators shelved the issue in a procedural brawl.
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House Democrats today unveiled a tightly worded resolution of opposition to President Bush's Iraq war plans, declaring that Congress "disapproves of the decision" to deploy more than 20,000 additional U.S. combat troops to Iraq.
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Democrats in the US Congress propose legislation requiring all US troops to leave Iraq by August 2008.
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Two leading Republican senators announced Friday they want to demand President Bush offer a plan to start reducing U.S. forces in Iraq by the end of the year.
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House Democrats agreed yesterday to debate a straightforward, nonbinding resolution that rejects President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, but they will also allow Republicans to bring their own war-related measure to the floor.
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Senators sharply questioned an Iraq commission's call for a new U.S. war strategy Thursday, saying the Bush administration and Congress must work urgently together to find a more effective approach.
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Senators are debating whether to pass a resolution opposing President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq. Democrats want a simple vote on the measure, passed yesterday by the House. But it is not clear if they will have the 60 votes necessary to move ahead.
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Democrats in the U.S. 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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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq while requiring President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
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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.