David Obey

162 House Votes for an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan

John Nichols
July 3, 2010

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Published by The Nation

An additional $33 billion in spending for President Obama’s occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq—and they are now his occupations as much as they once were George Bush’s—was approved by the House Thursday night as part of a broad “emergency” supplemental spending bill.

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Pelosi and Hoyer Trying to Pass War Escalation Funding By Thursday

David Swanson
June 29, 2010

Published by AfterDowningStreet.org.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who will openly tell you he does whatever President Obama and Speaker Pelosi instruct, can bring the war escalation funding to the House floor despite the opposition of Appropriations Chairman David Obey. This is because the House passed the bill without the war escalation funding and sent it to the Senate, which has now sent it back to the House.

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War Is Over (If They Mean It)

David Swanson
March 11, 2010

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Published by AfterDowningStreet.org.

Sixty-five congress members, including 60 Democrats and 5 Republicans, voted to end the occupation of Afghanistan on Wednesday. But 356 congress members, including 189 Democrats and 167 Republicans voted to keep the war going. The vote followed three hours of debate created by Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s introduction of a privileged resolution.

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