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McConnell Calls on Democrats to Speed Funding for the Troops

Statement

Date: April 14, 2007
Location: Louisville, KY
Issues: Military Personnel Government Budget and Spending

‘To me it's quite simple: Take out the surrender date, take out the pork, and send it to the President for his signature as soon as possible'

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Saturday regarding Democrats' unwillingness to compromise on the non-war-related funding and ‘surrender date' they added to the emergency war funding legislation:

"The delay in completing a supplemental bill that provides our forces in the field, and those preparing to enter the war zone, with essential supplies, material and training, is due to an internal struggle within the Democratic party. But to me it's quite simple: Take out the surrender date, take out the pork, and send it to the President for his signature as soon as possible.

"We're having a meeting at the White House on Wednesday and it is my hope that the Democrats will come prepared to discuss their hardened positions on both the surrender date and the non-war-related funding. So far, they've been unwilling to discuss removing either."


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