Budgets

As U.S. policy-makers prepared for hearings on space-science and climate-change research, AAAS is warning that budget cuts are threatening U.S. satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warning, studies of global climate change and more.    » read more »

May 2, 2007 -- Joined by the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee and other lawmakers, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today signed the $17.8 billion fiscal year 2007-08 budget bill into law, highlighting key elements as smart investments that will result in long-term savings.    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- Washington, DC - "With his veto today, President Bush has made it clear that he is standing in the way of ending the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home. The nation is ready for the President to stop disregarding the will of the American people and to work with Democrats on a funding bill that will enable us to begin redeploying our troops. He has a chance to do just that when he meets with the Democratic leadership tomorrow.    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada released the following statement as Congress sent the Emergency Supplemental conference report to the President:    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging President Bush to sign the emergency supplemental bill, legislation that provides critical funds for our soldiers, troops and veterans, as well as funding for recent domestic emergencies. Boxer also called on the President to change course in Iraq.

Following are excerpts of Sen. Boxer's floor speech:    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- “The President is wrong to veto the Iraq spending bill and reject its needed timeline for the orderly, responsible, and safe withdrawal of our forces from Iraq. He was wrong to lead us into the war, wrong to conduct it so poorly, wrong to refuse to change course.

We cannot continue business as usual in Iraq. It is time for America to end its participation in the brutal civil war.    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement in response to President Bush’s veto of the Emergency Supplemental conference report:

“The President may be content with keeping our troops mired in the middle of an open-ended civil war, but we are not; and neither are most Americans.    » read more »

May 1, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement tonight immediately after President Bush announced that he would veto the Iraq Supplemental Funding Bill:

"At a time when the country needs real leadership the most, President Bush continues to practice the politics of division.

"There was room to work with the Democrats and Congress to give our troops the money they need and the American people the plan they expect to end the war in Iraq.

"But the President slammed the door shut on cooperation and compromise.    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- "Mr. President, the conference agreement includes a landmark provision which outlines a new way forward in Iraq. Rather than continuing our failed policy, it changes the mission of our troops, requires the President to begin to withdraw them from Iraq in October, and sets a goal of next March for the completion of the withdrawal.    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- "Mr. President, the emergency supplemental appropriations bill before us today includes $95.5 billion for the Department of Defense, primarily to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is approximately $4 billion more than the President requested for DoD, including $2.2 billion above the President’s request for health care for our servicemen and women and their families.

When our military forces are in harms way, it is our solemn duty to provide the equipment they need and the health care they deserve and we are meeting that duty with this bill.    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- Washington, DC - "With this vote, Congress has provided funding for our troops while also putting forward sensible provisions to begin the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. I call upon the President to work with Congress in order to ensure the troops receive these funds and that we change course in Iraq.    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- Washington, DC - Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Senate passed the Emergency Supplemental Funding Bill for Iraq:

"President Bush has spent the last two weeks talking up the "progress" we're making in Iraq and talking down the Democrats and some of our Republican colleagues for trying to bring this war to a responsible end. But sometimes, you have to deal with the facts as they are - not as the President wants them to be.    » read more »

April 25, 2007 -- Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke this evening on the House floor in support of the Iraq Accountability Conference Report, which requires accountability for the war in Iraq and supports our troops and veterans.    » read more »

Says we are one signature away from ending Iraq War

April 26, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement after the Senate approved the supplemental funding bill that sets a target date to remove U.S. combat troops from Iraq:

“We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War. President Bush must listen to the will of the American people and sign this bill so that our troops can come home.”    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada delivered the following speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate today on the 2007 Emergency Supplemental Funding bill:

Mr. President, I rise in support of H.R. 1591, the Fiscal Year 2007 Emergency Supplemental Funding bill, and urge my colleagues to support it as well.    » read more »