House Passes Spending Bill, Iraq Withdrawal Date

The House barely passed a $124 billion spending bill Friday to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, establish benchmarks for political progress by the Iraqi government and set a deadline next summer for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
Approved largely along party lines, 218 to 212, the measure was the first by the House to place conditions on President Bush’s prosecution of the war in Iraq, and require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops by the end of August, 2008.

The bill faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. The White House has vowed to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.

The article can be found here.

BTW, the Democrats did try to add billions of dollars of additional spending.