Think the House's Aug '08 deadline is too far away? What's the Senate up to?

[ProSense]

Are they backing away from a deadline?

US Senate to debate troop pullout from Iraq

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate was to take up binding legislation Monday to withdraw US troops from Iraq within one year -- setting up a showdown with
President George W. Bush, who has vowed a veto.

The Senate was to debate emergency funding of 121.6 billion dollars for the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan in a bill that would also set a strict March 2008 time line for the pullout of most US combat forces.

The House of Representatives on Friday, in a historic vote, approved a similar bill, although its version calls for a pullout by August 31, 2008.

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On Sunday, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) vowed to join a Democratic colleague to introduce binding legislation that imposes conditions on Iraq's stability and ratchets up pressure on the White House.

Fellow Vietnam war veteran Senator Jim Webb will join Hagel to introduce legislation "that will in fact have the force of law in the future involvement of our military and our country, and (under) what conditions that future will be," said Hagel.

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[BayCityProgressive]

1. Any Democrat

that refuses to back this weak legislation should be run out of the party in their next primary.