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Lawmakers Weigh Combining Two Years Worth of War Supplemental Measures

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By Emelie Rutherford The Senate will wait and see what the House does on a proposal to merge fiscal year 2008 and 2009 supplemental war-funding measures into one large bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday. House leaders have been weighing a plan to combine the remaining FY '08 supplemental request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with the expected FY '09 proposal--the details of which the Pentagon has not yet unveiled--into one large measure costing at…

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