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May 15, 2009

House Passes $97B War Funding Bill
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The House has approved a nearly $97 billion spending bill funding the
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The measure includes $1 billion in
military and economic assistance to Pakistan. Lawmakers stripped a
provision that would have granted $80 million toward the closure the US
prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The final vote was 368-to-60, with
a bloc of fifty-one antiwar Democrats voting in opposition. The Senate
Appropriations Committee, meanwhile, has approved a $93 billion version
of the bill that includes the Guantanamo funding but bars the transfer
of any prisoners to US soil.



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