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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.

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Iraq Deadline and the Democratic Congress

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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.