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House Kills War Supplemental, Shifting Focus To Senate

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford The House shot down a war supplemental funding bill yesterday as a Senate panel dug into its own legislation that includes controversial policy and domestic spending provisions as well as less-contested spending for C-17 airlifters, C-130 aircraft, and mine-resistant vehicles. Both chambers had divided their versions of the bill into three sections--on war spending, war policy, and non-war spending. The House failed to muster enough votes on the war- spending portion yesterday afternoon, hours after President Bush's…

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