US Democrats vow to fight on after defeat of Iraq pullout bill
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Democrats vowed to force votes on Iraq withdrawal plans &quot;again and again&quot; after US Senate Republicans thwarted their latest bid to wrest control of the unpopular war from President George W. Bush.
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A proposal that Senate Democrats put forward as their best chance of changing course in Iraq died on Wednesday, as Republicans stood firmly behind President Bush.
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Democratic Congressional leaders on Friday offered the first concessions in a fight with President Bush over a spending bill for Iraq, but the White House turned them down
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Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races.
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Republicans blocked a full-fledged Senate debate over Iraq on Monday, but Democrats vowed they would eventually find a way to force President Bush to change course in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops.
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A resolution demanding the   resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after he   compared Iraq war critics to Nazi appeasers has strong support   among U.S. Senate Democrats, a senior Democrat said on Sunday.
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A Democratic lawmaker says he will press on with legislation to permanently bar the Pentagon from selling leftover F-14 jet fighter parts despite the Defense Department's decision to pull them off the market while it considers national security concerns.
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The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.
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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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House Democratic leaders vowed Thursday to pass legislation setting a deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a challenge to President Bush's war policy that drew a blunt veto threat in return.
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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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Democratic critics of the Iraq war seized the offensive at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, disclosing plans for a symbolic rejection by the House of President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops and filing legislation in the Senate to require withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
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As Iraqis prepare for a democratic vote, the U.S. is still struggling to prevent insurgents from destroying it
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Democrats vowed on Saturday to protect the Social Security retirement program from &quot;privatization&quot; by US President George W. Bush and his Republican allies, who expanded their congressional majorities in elections this week.
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The House passed a $120 billion war-spending bill Thursday that had been the primary point of contention between Democrats and President Bush. The bill does not include a deadline for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq as Democrats originally demanded but does have political benchmarks that the Iraqi government should meet to keep reconstruction aid flowing. It also includes a raft of domestic spending measures, including a federal minimum wage hike.
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Frustrated U.S. Senate Democrats failed on Friday to force a troop pullout from Iraq, losing ground from an earlier vote and capping a series of defeats that reinforced the chamber's divide over the war.
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The White House and Congress failed to strike a deal Friday after exchanging competing offers on an Iraq war spending bill that Democrats said should set a date for U.S. troops to leave