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Congress is debating a $178 billion supplemental-spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.(The Week)(Brief article)
Congress is debating a $178 billion supplemental-spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill is long overdue, and President Bush has warned that unless Congress acts in a timely fashion, it will mean furloughs for as many as 200,000 civilian defense workers. Congressional Democrats are trying to hijack the bill. Sen. Jim Webb proposes to expand education benefits to veterans, which is a fine idea, except that Webb wants to provide the full range of benefits after only three years, thus ...
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