The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a new GI bill and billions in new domestic spending as part of the $165 billion Iraq war funding bill pending before Congress.
What was most surprising was not that the domestic funding amendment and the GI bill won a majority of the Senate votes, but that half of the Senate’s 49 Republicans bucked President Bush and GOP presidential candidate John McCain to back the dramatically expanded GI bill. Virtually every GOP senator who is politically vulnerable this year voted for the domestic spending.
In all 25 Senate Republicans broke ranks with Bush/McCain to support the measure, giving the bill a veto-proof majority.
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke in favor of the bill and voted for it. McCain, who has repeatedly said he opposes the measure skipped the vote. Why because he's a coward.
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The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a new GI bill and billions in new domestic spending as part of the $165 billion Iraq war funding bill pending before Congress.
What was most surprising was not that the domestic funding amendment and the GI bill won a majority of the Senate votes, but that half of the Senate’s 49 Republicans bucked President Bush and GOP presidential candidate John McCain to back the dramatically expanded GI bill.
Virtually every GOP senator who is politically vulnerable this year voted for the domestic spending.
In all 25 Senate Republicans broke ranks with Bush/McCain to support the measure, giving the bill a veto-proof majority.
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke in favor of the bill and voted for it. McCain, who has repeatedly said he opposes the measure skipped the vote.
Why because he's a coward.
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