Reid: "We Now Have The Timeline The Repubicans Have Set"By Greg Sargent | bio
Here's a transcript of Harry Reid on MSNBC answering a question about whether the Iraq funding bill with no withdrawal timelines is a defeat for Dems:
QUESTION: How about exit dates and timelines or withdrawal strategies or language in the bill? Isn't that a significant concession by your side? REID: First of all, it hasn't been determined what we're going to have in that. But keep in mind the progress that we have made. Even the Republicans now have timelines. Remember, they wouldn't accept our timelines in the bill that was vetoed? And they're talking now about a plan B, which basically is what was in the vetoed bill. So I think we have to look at the progress that has been made.
We now have the timeline that the Republicans have set, and that's this September. And that's the very least. And then, as I've indicated, the defense authorization, we're going to start right where we've left off with this bill, continuing our push to change direction in the war in Iraq. And now we're being joined by Republicans.More at...........
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/22/reid_we_now_have_the_timeline_the_repubicans_have_set
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