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http://pdamerica.org/ Bush Announces Supplemental Appropriation Request!
Yesterday, the Bush administration announced that it will ask for another $70 billion for the Iraq war. This will bring the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan to $120 billion for 2006.
Two days ago, the House voted to make $39.5 billion in cuts to Medicaid, Social Security for people with disabilities, child care programs and student loans. To find out how your Rep. voted, go to:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll004.xmlDon't get up from this computer until you have sent a letter to the editor of your local paper demanding that your members of Congress vote against that supplemental appropriation! Keep it short, keep it simple, get it done!
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http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/media/It is time to highlight the cost of the war. You can customize your letter for your state. Find out what your state or city could have done with the money we have already squandered in Iraq at:
http://costofwar.com/index.html After you write your letter to the editor, fax a copy of it to your Representative and Senators. You can find their fax numbers by entering your zip code on this page:
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/For further information on the supplemental appropriation request, here is an article from Congressional Quarterly:
Bush to Seek $90.3 Billion Supplemental Spending Request
The president's fiscal 2007 budget proposal will assume a $90.3 billion supplemental spending request to be submitted this spring to cover war, hurricane and flu spending, a Senate GOP leadership aide said today.
The budget will be sent to Congress on Monday. The details of the supplemental will follow later.
About $70 billion of the supplemental would go toward the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, $18 billion for hurricane relief and $2.3 billion for avian flu preparations, the aide said.
Lawmakers had expected the defense portion of the supplemental to be substantial; the military in fiscal 2005 spent $4.5 billion a month in Iraq and $800 million in Afghanistan . If requirements remain the same, the Pentagon would burn through the $50 billion war funding included in the fiscal 2006 budget by this summer.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who has sharply criticized the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, said he was uncertain if $18 billion would be enough to cover the costs that remain. "We're learning as we go," he said today. "It may be enough, it may not be."
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