Will A House Resolution Pass?

    It may have gotten stuck in quicksand in the Senate, but the resolution on Bush's war escalation plan may be resurrected from death's grip over in the House.

YahooNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will take up a resolution next week disapproving of President George W. Bush's decision to add 21,500 American troops in Iraq, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.

Although the House had intended to follow the Senate's lead on the issue, Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, said the House had decided not to wait any longer on the Senate to act after Senate Republicans blocked debate on a similar resolution in that chamber on Monday.

"The reason we're going ahead is not because we don't think the Senate will ever act, but we're not sure when the Senate is going to act," Hoyer told reporters.

"I think the resolution will clearly say we do not believe that the president's proposal of an escalation of 21,000 troops is the proper policy to be pursuing," Hoyer said. It was being drafted now, he said, and he expected a three day debate.

   Maybe it would have been a better idea if all of this had started in the House right from the start, where the Democrats have more than enough votes to get some kind of statement on this mess passed.

    I would go so far as to even dare any of the Democrats in the House to go for some watered down crap like they attempted to do in the Senate version of a resolution.

    We are watching you like hawks!

 

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