*** UPDATE BELOW *** The Associated Press reports that the Webb GI Bill has passed the Senate: Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, noted frenemy of Senator Barack Obama and one-man distant early warning system of the Coming Lesbian Panic, wrote an op-e...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A new war spending bill proposed by House Democrats would prohibit using U.S. aid to rebuild towns or equip security forces in Iraq...
James Freedman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home
Our election machinery is flawed and vulnerable. It's a telling comparison-- the amount of money we spend on fair elections versus the amounts we spend on campaigns or on bringing democracy to Iraq.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Senators Barbara Mikulski and Pat Murray blasted White House budget czar over spending priorities during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting on ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. So much that it's hard to get your head around. You shouldn't feel bad about it, after all, John McCain ca...
Brave New Films | Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
The occupation of Iraq will cost $3 trillion, America's most expensive conflict since WWII. Can YOU spend that money better? Here's your chance to g...
San Francisco Chronicle | Zachary Coile | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
It was supposed to be a quick war and a cheap one. Five years later, 160,000 U.S. troops are still in Iraq. And the costs keep piling up - $12 billion...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will...
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
One longtime House member's views of the hidden costs of the war in Iraq are worth studying -- when the congressman is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), ch...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help...
Reuters | Richard Cowan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The Iraq war may not dominate U.S. news reports as the carnage drops, but a new report underscores the financial burden of persistent combat that is h...
Politico | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After a series of legislative defeats in 2007 that saw the year end with more U.S. troops in Iraq than when it began, a coalition of anti-war groups i...
The Hill | Walter Alarkin and Roxan Tiron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Lawyers for American victims of Saddam Hussein's crimes during the first Gulf War are pressing Congress not to give in to a Bush administration pocket...
Politico | Patrick O'Connor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Candi Wolff on Friday concludes her three-year run as the president's top congressional liaison after helping George W. Bush navigate the rockiest str...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
President Bush, still voicing concern about special project spending by Congress, signed a $555 billion bill Wednesday that funds the Iraq war well in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Days after congressional Democrats signaled their intention to reverse course and provide President Bush with tens of billions in new Iraq war spendin...
Politico.com | Martin Kady | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Democrats are poised to hand President Bush upward of $50 billion in Iraq funding with no strings attached, and they've already offered to cut $11 bil...
New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Congressional leaders are assembling a $500 billion package to try to resolve an impasse by providing President Bush with unfettered money for the Ira...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Some House Democratic leaders are considering plans to quietly fund the Iraq war while trying to minimize the political fall-out. One of the latest ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Two Republican lawmakers are calling the Bush administration's bluff in the battle over Iraq war legislation. President Bush and other top administr...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Democrats are talking tough on the war while preparing yet one more capitulation. When the smoke clears you can bet the Democrats will reach a "compromise" on continued funding for a war with no real end.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Democratic House leadership drew a line in the sand over Iraq War funding today, setting the tone for a messaging battle that will likely play out ove...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Nearly a year after anti-war voters put them in power, congressional Democrats remain unable to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq. Frust...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
House Democrats defiantly pushed ahead Wednesday with a $50 billion war spending bill that calls for troops to leave Iraq, despite concerns raised by ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics