Is The U.S. Preparing To Bomb Iran? Pentagon Submits MOP Funding Request
Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-n...
Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-n...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With hardly any debate, a powerful Senate committee Thursday approved President Barack Obama's $128 billion request for military op...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama won a major victory in the Senate Tuesday in a dogfight that has major, long-term implications for his agenda. The Senate, by a vote ...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Recent actions by the DCCC and House Democratic leadership reveal that electing more Democrats and defeating Republican incumbents has taken a back seat to a radical, pro-war agenda.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
In anticipation of Tuesday's House vote on the war supplemental spending bill, which still includes money for the International Monetary Fund but not ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — After a flare-up over controversial detainee abuse photos, House-Senate negotiators sealed agreement on a crucial war-funding bill ...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Despite Democrats' rising anxiety about Afghanistan, the House on Thursday easily passed a $96.7 billion measure filling President ...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
CORNWALLIS, Nova Scotia — Even in a global financial crisis, the world cannot afford to skimp on its obligations to Afghanistan, which wants to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
Republicans in the Senate may be walking into a political trap this week, in which their insistence on considering energy legislation leads them to bl...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The leaders of a House panel that oversees military spending said Wednesday they are drafting legislation that would pay for combat...
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...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Senate voted Tuesday to provide $70 billion for U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a victory to President Bush and his GOP all...
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...
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
It is regarded within some progressive circles as the one way of bringing an end to the Iraq War with President Bush still in office. If 41 Senators w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In September, 90 House members banded together in a letter to the White House stating that they would vote against any further funding for the war in ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In light of the administration's increasingly threatening rhetoric on Iran, CQ reports that members of Congress are worried by Bush's recent budget pr...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
President Bush asked Congress on Monday for another $46 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and finance other national security needs. "...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After smothering efforts by war critics in Congress to drastically cut U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to a...
ABC News | Jonathan Karl | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics