On the recordMarch 1, 2004
the administration wants to delay until after the upcoming Presidential election sending Congress the bill for keeping our troops in Iraq for another year.
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Robert C. Byrd
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Senator Byrd criticizes the administration's timing regarding troop funding.
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Feb 16, 2005
to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.
Sep 21, 2004
the doctrine of preemption says that one man, the President, shall have power to declare war.
Feb 16, 2005
In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
Sep 21, 2004
I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.