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Senate ponders Sunday vote on Iraq
By Manu Raju | Posted: 11/15/07/ 3:23 p.m.
November 15, 2007
The Senate might vote Sunday on whether to take up a $50 billion war funding bill that calls for a troop withdrawal from Iraq in 12 months, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned Thursday.
Reid told reporters that he plans to file cloture Friday on a motion to proceed to the Iraq funding bill, meaning that 60 votes will be needed to move to the bill on Sunday, when the cloture petition ripens. But he added that the vote might be moved up if he reaches an agreement with Republican leaders on the process for taking up the measure.
“We’ll either do it easily or the hard way,” Reid said.
Democratic and Republican aides said the two sides were working on an agreement that could allow the vote to occur as early as Friday.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture Thursday on a Republican-sponsored $70 billion troop funding bill that does not include a timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. If no agreement is reached, a cloture vote could occur on the McConnell bill as early as Saturday.
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