Peace Pundit

The US House of Representatives voted Thursday 368-60 to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the remainder of the current fiscal year. The House bill approved $96.7 billion. 51 members of the (Democratic) Progressive caucus and nine Republicans voted against the bill.

The Senate is preparing to pass its own version of the same bill. Its Appropriations Committee approved the bill for voting by the full Senate next week.

News Reports of the Vote

• Wall Street Journal
• Time/CNN
• Bloomberg
• Fox
• PBS News Hour

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• The Way to Peace is Peace
• Congress Skeptical, But Funds More War Anyway
• House Dems Assembling Biggest Iraq Spending Bill
• Democrats Defy Bush… NOT!

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