Full Article Here.(01-17) 04:00 PST Washington -- A nonbinding Senate resolution opposing President Bush's decision to send more U.S. forces to Iraq will be introduced this week and probably debated beginning next week, congressional aides said Tuesday.
"I expect it to be a bipartisan vote to say, 'Mr. President, this is a proposal that's not going to make a difference,' '' House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said.
The Democratic strategy is to have the narrowly divided Senate go first in debating and voting on a resolution, which would come to the floor after Bush delivers his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress scheduled Tuesday evening.
With 48 Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont available to vote in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada would need at least a dozen Republican senators to support the resolution and reach the 60 votes to block a filibuster threatened by the Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. A handful of Republicans have announced their opposition to the president's plan.
At the White House, Bush spokesman Tony Snow warned again that a congressional vote against the president's plan to send about 20,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq to help pacify Baghdad might have far-reaching and negative consequences.
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