Supplemental 2.0 -- Short-Term War Funding?

What does Congress do for a yes-able encore, once Bush vetoes its full-funding of his record-sized war request? On the House side, senior Democrats are warming to the idea of passing a set of smaller war funding packages, akin to a sequence of CRs, providing money for as little as two months at a time. Yesterday, House Defense Appropriations chair John Murtha (D-PA) said it is likely the next step will be a two-month supplemental bill... but Senate leaders have yet to signal support for such an approach. The Council on Foreign Relations repeats reports that, with the Democrats' bill heading for a veto they cannot override, "there are growing indications they could get behind a two-month supplemental bill." But, we humbly submit, a president who sees a non-binding "goal" for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq as grounds for veto, just might take a dim view of Congress repeating the current debates and votes ten more times before he leaves office.
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