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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

No spinach aid in supplemental bill

Washington lobbyists tell me today there is no spinach aid in the conference report for supplemental appropriations for Iraq. This report from The Hill confirms, and also indicates that the bill will likely be vetoed anyway because of Democratic language on putting a date on U.S. troop withdrawal.
From the story:

The Iraq supplemental will not be as “clean” as President Bush demanded, but Democratic appropriators yesterday agreed to eliminate two domestic-spending projects that Bush and the GOP have criticized and to remove the fixed timeline for troop withdrawal.The House-Senate conference committee on the supplemental, which Democrats have trumpeted as the first open conference in years, agreed to replace the binding timetable in the House’s original version with a redeployment goal of April 1, 2008. Conferees also removed $25 million in relief for spinach farmers, $40 million for the Christmas-tree industry, and $74 million in peanut-storage money from the bill.


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