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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 733953" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p>A year after President Obama pledged to end the practice of funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with "emergency" spending bills, the Senate is taking up a $60 billion request that would do exactly that. </p><p> </p><p>The Bush administration routinely used supplemental spending bills to fund the wars in Irag and Afghanistan. Obama criticized the practice as a candidate and when he came into office pledged to keep war funding within the traditional budget request. </p><p>"For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," he said in his February 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. </p><p>When Obama requested $83 billion in additional funding last spring for the wars, he said he would draw the line there. </p><p>"This is the last planned war supplemental," he wrote in April 2009 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling for "an honest, more accurate and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending" after years of "budget gimmicks and wasteful spending." </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 733953, member: 25159"] A year after President Obama pledged to end the practice of funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with "emergency" spending bills, the Senate is taking up a $60 billion request that would do exactly that. The Bush administration routinely used supplemental spending bills to fund the wars in Irag and Afghanistan. Obama criticized the practice as a candidate and when he came into office pledged to keep war funding within the traditional budget request. "For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," he said in his February 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. When Obama requested $83 billion in additional funding last spring for the wars, he said he would draw the line there. "This is the last planned war supplemental," he wrote in April 2009 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling for "an honest, more accurate and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending" after years of "budget gimmicks and wasteful spending." [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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