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Richard Shelby

Senate Defies Veto Threat, Passes Troop Pullout

The Senate passed legislation Thursday calling for troops to leave Iraq by March 2008, ignoring a veto threat from President Bush.

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Mar 29, 2007
 
if bush dont sign the bill the congress have to go back to square 1. it would take another few months before he gets a chance to veto another 1, its all his fault cause he like a spoiled kid he turn down a nice sweet cake of a monstrous budget. again the decider responsibility.

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Mar 30, 2007
 
Yeppers, President Bush is surely passing up a "nice sweet cake" whose ingredients contain a fantastic variety of PORK ... like the following:

Subtitle A--Agricultural Production Losses

SEC. 411. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 412. DAIRY ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 413. MILK INCOME LOSS CONTRACT PROGRAM.

SEC. 414. LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 415. FLOODED CROP AND GRAZING LAND.

SEC. 416. SUGAR BEET AND SUGAR CANE DISASTER ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 417. NONINSURED CROP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

SEC. 418. REDUCTION IN PAYMENTS.

Subtitle B--Small Business Economic Loss Grant Program

SEC. 421. SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC LOSS GRANT PROGRAM.

Subtitle C--Forestry

SEC. 431. TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Subtitle D--Conservation

SEC. 441. EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM.

SEC. 442. EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION PROGRAM.

SEC. 443. CONSERVATION SECURITY PROGRAM.

Subtitle E--Farm Service Agency

SEC. 451. FUNDING FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.

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The ability and overt adding of items to a war supplemental bill by Senators (... and Congressmen/Congresswomen) in their respective bills while yielding to lobbyists and their own specials home state interests is and has been a CROCK!

If one pays taxes, is this how they should be spent ... and added to a war supplemental bill?
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Mar 30, 2007
 
They do that to make Bush look bad if he Veto's it they cry look what he did as they point finger's at him for Vetoing this Bill and killing all those programs.
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