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Bush Poised to Veto Congress' Iraq Bill
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ABC News' Karen Travers Reports: The Bush Administration announced that Congress' Iraq spending bill will come down to their end of Pennsylvania Avenue at 4pm ET Tuesday and President Bush will use his veto pen for just the second time.
President Bush will make a statement at 6:10pm ET from Cross Hall at the White House after he vetoes the legislation.
President Bush and White House officials have been consistent for weeks that if Congress sent him any bill with timetables or deadlines, he would veto it.
The White House has strongly criticized Democrats, arguing they are playing politics with troop funding.
Congressional Democrats sent the bill to the White House today, on the fourth anniversary of the President's "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino today called the timing "a trumped-up political stunt that is the height of cynicism."
Perino said the President would prefer not to have to veto this bill but will make good on his word that he will not accept artificial timetables or deadlines for U.S. troop withdrawal in the Iraq spending bill.
This will be the second veto of Bush's presidency. He previously vetoed congressional legislation in July, 2006, that would have expanded federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
May 1, 2007 in Vote 2008: Democrats | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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If President Bush had submitted this funding in his regular budget he would not face this problem. A war that has been going on for years is not an emergency. An emergency appropriation in itself infers a temporary situation which would not be inappropriate to include a deadline. Of course, that is assuming honesty and morality that is so often talked about is actually part of someone's daily life.
Posted by: mary | May 1, 2007 3:11:29 PM
Good for Bush! There is only ONE Commander-in-Chief at a time in this country.
Posted by: Lisa | May 1, 2007 4:31:30 PM
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