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War Funding’s OK Stalled On Capitol Hill

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Friday, May 28th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Congress looks to have failed to approve emergency war funding before Memorial Day, with a House panel delaying action yesterday. The Senate passed its version of the fiscal year 2010 supplemental appropriations bill by a 67-28 margin last night, hours after casting a procedural cloture vote that limited debate on the measure that stirred Republican concerns because it specifies no offsets to pay for the funding. It which includes $33.5 billion in defense funding largely for the war…

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