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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (29193)	9/30/2003 4:32:04 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Party line vote Republicans defeated a Democratic effort to split President Bush's $87 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan into two separate bills for defense and reconstruction as the GOP began pushing the package Tuesday through the Senate's Appropriations Committee. The amendment, defeated on a 15 to 14 party-line vote, represented a Democratic effort to attack the bill's political weak point -- its $20.3 billion to rebuild Iraq. Members of both parties are ready to support the $65.5 billion that Bush wants for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. But many of them have found it harder to defend using taxpayer's money for Bush's plans to create Iraqi ZIP codes and to buy sanitation trucks when the United States faces record budget deficits of its own. abcnews.go.com lurqer