Senate set to vote on Iraq troop surge

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago

President Bush, Democratic critics of the
Iraq war hope a strong House vote critical of the administration's troop buildup will pay dividends in the Senate.

Senate Republicans, however, insisted on an alternative that would reject any reduction in money for the troops, making it unlikely that Democrats would prevail in a test vote planned Saturday.

"Americans deserve to know whether their senator stands with the president and his plan to deepen our military commitment in Iraq, or with the overwhelming majority of Americans who oppose this escalation," Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) said Friday.

New York Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in New Hampshire on Saturday, said she thought it was important to get Republicans on record "in order to have them as possibly the core of Republicans who will stand with us to cap troops or cut funding."

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