Senate Kills Plan to Detail Iraq War Cost (ie..pork to Halliburton)

__Senate Kills Plan to Detail Iraq War Cost -- i.e. Pork to Halliburton, Bechtel

"The Senate refused Wednesday to force the Bush administration to specify precisely the cost of continuing military operations in Iraq, defeating a Democratic attempt to use a defense spending bill to criticize its conduct of the war. The vote was 53-41 to kill a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to force the administration to submit an amendment to the pending $368.6 billion overall defense spending bill stating the costs... Republicans mustered a strong majority to turn back the Senate's most vocal critic of the war on Tuesday... The 64-31 vote killed a proposal by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to limit National Guard and Reserve overseas missions to six months, once a year. The Defense Department reported last week that 204,100 Guard and Reserve forces were now mobilized to active duty." One bit of good news: "The bill also blocks funds for the Terrorism Information Awareness program, a Bush surveillance initiative to cull records for evidence of terrorist activity."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2915320,00.html

NOTICE WE FIND OUT FROM A UK NEWS SOURCE

ALL about Clinton's private life. Now we have no right to know what this unelected, AWOL, corporate crook is doing with OUR money. I thought Republicans were all about the public's right to know about the way "your money" is spent. How on earth do these frauds get voted into office?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR02658:@@@X