Another Senate-House spat: War funding

Another Senate-House spat: War funding
By Ed Hornick, CNN
July 27, 2010 7:49 a.m. EDT

Washington (CNN) -- The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a scaled-back version of its original war funding bill, which would drop billions of dollars for unrelated domestic programs, including money to help struggling states avoid teacher layoffs.

Republicans and even some Democrats scoffed at additional spending being added to the bulging deficit. The contention was on full display last week when the Senate voted for a nearly $59 billion bill without the extra spending. The move resulted in the bill going back to the House.

The latest House-Senate dispute highlights the divide between the more conservative Senate and the more liberal House as well as the the frustration of House Democrats with the Obama White House.

Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said that the Senate by nature is more conservative and tends to have "an ego."

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The House narrowly passed its $82 billion spending bill on July 1. Before the vote, the White House issued a veto threat, warning Democrats that President Obama would reject the bill if they placed money conditions that would "undermine his ability as commander in chief to conduct military operations in Afghanistan." :wtf: