Voters put Democrats in charge of Congress. Then what happened?


	Voters put Democrats in charge of Congress. Then what happened?

Carl Lavin

11-13-2007 10:42 AM

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Since taking the majority, they have forced 40 votes on bills limiting President Bush’s war policy. </DIV>
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Only one of those has passed both chambers, even though both are run by Democrats. That one was vetoed by Bush. </DIV>
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Indeed, the only war legislation enacted during this Congress has been to give the president exactly what he wants, and exactly what he has had for the past five years: more money, with no limitations.</DIV></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/288EBD1F-DFA0-42C5-9EAC-167CC14E7420/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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