House Majority Leader Concedes Iraq Funding Will Come without Withdrawal Timeline

House Majority Leader Concedes Iraq Funding Will Come without Withdrawal
Timeline

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an exchange on the House
floor with Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) this afternoon, House Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) conceded that a troop funding measure would advance
in Congress without language mandating a withdrawal timeline from Iraq.

Blunt: On the military question, does the gentleman anticipate any opportunity
to have funding - either full or partial - for Iraq and Afghanistan without
withdrawal language in the bill we would send over to the Senate or at some
later time? And I'd yield.

Hoyer: I anticipate at some point in time that would be the case.

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SOURCE House Republican Whip Roy Blunt

Antonia Ferrier or Amos Snead, of the Office of House Republican Whip Roy
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