The U.S. Congress has passed a war-funding bill that sets a timeline for the start of American troop withdrawal from Iraq. The Senate approved the legislation today, largely along party lines.
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President Bush says it is "irresponsible" for the Democratic leadership in Congress to delay war funding for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Speaking to an audience of veterans at an American Legion post in northern Virginia, Mr. Bush said he has invited congressional leaders from both parties to meet with him at the White House next week.
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The U.S. Senate adopted a bill that calls on President George W. Bush to withdraw all combat U.S. troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008. Bush said he would veto the measure, and that Congress should not tie the hands of the military by trying to make decisions for those involved in the fighting.
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President Bush has renewed his threat to veto a bill before Congress that would fund the Iraq war, but would also set a deadline for a U.S. troop withdrawal. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports it is the latest escalation in tensions between the White House and the Democratic Party majority on Capitol Hill.
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U.S. Senate committee has taken the first steps toward requesting testimony from Bush administration officials in connection with the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year by the Justice Department. The dismissals have created a political firestorm for President Bush amid calls from Democrats and at least one Republican that Mr. Bush fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has asked Congress for an additional $3.2 billion to pay for sending at least 4,000 U.S. troops to Iraq.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that in case of adoption of the Armenian Genocide bill in the US Congress it will harm Turkish-American relations.
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U.S. Democratic Party lawmakers are pledging renewed efforts to curtail U.S. involvement in the Iraq war.
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The U.S. House of Representatives is holding its first full debate over Iraq since the opposition Democrats took control of Congress.
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U.S. President George W. Bush is due to present his budget plan for the next fiscal year to the opposition Democratic Party-controlled Congress.
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U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson says the White House will actively oppose a resolution in the U.S. Congress to recognize the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the end of World War I as "genocide."
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A senior U.S. lawmaker has warned President George W. Bush that he alone should not be making decisions about the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq.
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