Pelosi Backs War Funds Only With Conditions
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday linked her support for President Bush's war-funding request to strict standards of resting, training and equipping combat forces, a move that could curtail troop deployments and alter the course of U.S. involvement in Iraq.
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Amid rumblings from conservatives that she is seeking special treatment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) will receive use of an Air Force jet larger than the one used by her predecessor, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, so she can fly nonstop to her home in San Francisco.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuked a fellow San Francisco Bay-area liberal Friday for what she said were "inappropriate" comments about Iraq during a congressional debate.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday approved a $463.5 billion funding bill to keep the  government running this year, while adding money to care for  veterans wounded in Iraq and stepping up the global struggle  against HIV/AIDS.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today offered a glum assessment of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying that a trip to those nations last week left her discouraged, even though U.S. military personnel have performed "excellently."
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In pushing for a bipartisan plan, they seek to avoid 'ownership' of the Iraq war.
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In public, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had done nothing to suppress her frustration as she assented to funding the Iraq war without a deadline to end it. But behind closed doors Wednesday night, she was all business.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, her party deeply divided and holding only a narrow majority, faces long odds in passing legislation that would bring troops home from Iraq before the 2008 presidential election.
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The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement &#151; 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly &#151; faces a dilemma: The lawmakers can back a Democratic plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause.
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The plan leaves any controversial decisions over war spending for a later discussion.
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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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In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of billions of dollars in spending on domestic programs, officials said Monday
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Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday she won't vote for any more money to support the four-year-old war in Iraq without a plan to start bringing U.S. troops home. "I've reached the conclusion that the best way to support our troops is begin bringing them home," the New York Democrat and presidential candidate said.
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The U.S. House of Representatives broke a four-month deadlock with President George W. Bush on Thursday and approved $100 billion in new funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without a timetable for withdrawing combat troops.
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The House of Representatives on  Friday approved significant increases in funds next year for  domestic security and veterans care in a challenge to President  George W. Bush&#39;s more limited budget requests.
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A key Republican senator announced his support Wednesday for efforts by Sen. John McCain and others to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in next year's congressional elections as they did in last year's 2004 presidential race.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is set to ask Congress for $190bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.