Last month, Bush delivered his request to Congress for emergency supplemental war spending. In his request he asked for an $81.9 billion supplemental bill to be passed for emergency spending purposes (i.e., war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan). When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of the State Condoleeza Rice testified before Congress, House GOP leaders were uncharacteristically critical of the amount of money Bush had requested, and where this money would go. See this February 17th article for more information. Despite these criticisms, yesterday House Republicans decided to support giving Bush all but $800 million of what he had requested, approving an $81.1 billion emergency supplemental bill. Perhaps the most controversial expenditure to be approved was $600 million to be spent on the "largest U.S. embassy in the world" to be built in Baghdad. Click here for more information.