A pared-down version of the war funding supplemental is currently scheduled to hit the House floor on Thursday, May 24, with Senate action expected later that day or early the next. The bill appears likely to include the federal minimum wage increase and and extension of about $4.8 billion in small-business tax cuts. Whether domestic emergency appropiations will remain is yet to be determined. But timetables, benchmarks and other restrictions or conditions on war funding or soldiers' redeployment will probably be left out. Congress' battle with the White House over withdrawal of soldiers will apparently live to be fought another day -- possibly when the House and Senate's respective defense authorization bills are taken up. Why this turn of events? Possible explanation offered by a Democratic aide: "I think Mr. Obey is fatigued by the process."