Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Breaking: House schedules vote on Iraq resolution

BREAKING: The House has scheduled a vote on the nonbinding resolution that would oppose George Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 48,000 troops to Iraq.

UPDATE: The vote has apparently been scheduled for sometime next week.

UPDATE #2: Pelosi, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer pledged that this is merely the first attempt to get the message through to the President, and the next step will be binding resolutions.

Bush's revised strategy has sparked strong opposition among Democrats, and officials said that Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., had both pledged to their rank-and-file that next week's vote would merely be the first attempt to pressure the president to shift course in the war. Other legislation will be binding, they said.

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