Iraq Deadline and the Democratic Congress
This week, House Democrats gathered up the votes to confront President Bush with a deadline on pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. The timeline is part of an Iraq funding bill that barely passed the House by a vote of 218-212.
Robert Siegel talks with Thomas Mann, senior fellow at the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
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