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Senate Passes War Funding Bill

The $106 billion emergency spending bill — primarily targeting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — also included $10.4 billion in foreign aid, nearly $8 billion to fight pandemic disease and $1 billion to jump-start the cash-for clunkers program, which will provide cash vouchers up to $4,500 to drivers who trade gas-guzzling vehicles for more [...]


Kucinich: War Will Be the Last Thing This Country Can Make

There are plenty of House Democrats poised to vote against a $106 billion emergency spending proposal, most of which would go to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But few are willing to go after the proposal quite the way Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has. From his floor speech this morning:
We are destroying our [...]