White House Nixes Democratic Offer On Iraq Funding Bill

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic congressional leaders on Friday offered the first concessions in a fight with President Bush over a spending bill for Iraq, but the White House turned them down.

The Democrats, in a meeting with Bush's top aides on Capitol Hill, said they would strip from a war spending bill billions of dollars in domestic spending that the White House had opposed. They also pledged to give Bush authority to waive compliance with a timetable to pull combat troops out of Iraq.

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White House Nixes Democratic Offer On Iraq Funding Bill

But no agreement emerged.

"To say I was disappointed in the meeting is an understatement,"...

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