Rep. Hoyer: Vote on Iraq Will Be Limited (AP)

[Eugene]

Rep. Hoyer: Vote on Iraq Will Be Limited

Sunday, February 11, 2007


Rep. Hoyer: Vote on Iraq Will Be Limited

Sunday, February 11, 2007

(02-11) 07:22 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

A House vote on Iraq this week will be limited to the question of supporting President Bush's
troop escalation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Sunday.

Hoyer's comment drew a vehement objection from House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio,
who said House Democrats had promised to allow a vote this week on a Republican alternative
opposing a cutoff of money for the war.

Hoyer, D-Md., said such a vote would occur later.

"Live up to your word," Boehner told Hoyer. Democrats, Boehner said, "won't even let us have
a substitute. ... Give us a vote this week."

The lawmakers appeared on "Meet the Press" on NBC.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/11/national/w072210S87.DTL

[Dhalgren]

1. The Democrats need to cut off funding. If they can't do it because

the majority won't hold, we need to know this now. If they are not doing it for some other reason, then they need to tell us what that reason is. Vanity votes, so that members can look good to the voters (who overwhelmingly support a quick end to US occupation of Iraq), but that changes nothing is not acceptable. We need to know what the hell is going on in real terms, told to us by a Democrat that all respect.