One of the biggest stories this week is the Constitutional showdown between Congress and the President over the spending bill for the war. In a nutshell, the House and the Senate passed bills authorizing money for the troops in Iraq, but added withdrawal dates. Setting deadlines for American withdrawal from Iraq is something many Democrats in Congress favor, but also a fair number of Republicans.
However, President Bush rejects these guidelines, and doesn’t want Congress to tell him how to run the war. He has vowed to veto the bill, and the current funding for the war runs out on April 15th. (Until a bill is passed, the Department of Defense will continue to fund the war out of other parts of its budget, but they can’t go on like this indefinitely.)
What do you think of the arguments being made on both sides? (Read some of the articles I suggest or others you have found.) Both the President and the Congress are claiming that it is their responsibility to decide issues of withdrawal dates and timelines. Use your knowledge of the Constitution in responding!
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Bush Criticizes Democrats on War Funds
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I am writing this according to the article about "who is not supporting our troops?"with the president and the congress disagreeing about issues that deals with who runs the war and that congress think that they are responsible but president Bush don't want congresws to tell him how to run the war.well my opinion is that why don't they all just work together and figure out the solution to the war issue.I agree with Bush because he is the president and no one not even the congress can tell him how to run the war.Until they are president then they can run things but Bush is the president so yeah...
This article shows the lack of approval of the president. he cant do a lot without the help of congress then the war will not continue. he cant just keep going on and hopefully soon it will find an end.
i think that the bill that congress is trying to get passed is a good thing because we need to have a plan to get our troops out of iraq. it is upsetting that t6he president isnt listening to what the people want to do and just going off and doing his own thing. to me it justs my dislike of george bush a little stronger because if he was a good president then he would want to do what the majority of the united states wants not just what he wants to do.
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