By Jen DiMascio At the beginning of the week, lawmakers planned to bring a war-funding bill to a vote and reconciling remaining differences in a bill to authorize funding for the Defense Department. By yesterday, hopes for results were fizzling. The House had passed the $50 billion bill for the Iraq war, but a final vote on the measure in the Senate was unlikely. Senate leadership said it planned to hold cloture votes on the $50 billion bridge fund and…
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