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Senate Iraq resolution headed for cloture |
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By Elana Schor
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Posted: 03/13/07 07:38 PM [ET] |
The Senate is slated to vote today on invoking cloture on a Democratic-backed resolution setting a March 2008 deadline for completing troop withdrawal from Iraq, though Republicans have yet to indicate satisfaction with Democrats’ offers of votes on GOP amendments.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declined to set a benchmark for success, noting that 11 Republicans would need to support the binding Iraq measure in order to begin debate. “I do know Democrats are united on our resolution,” Reid said.
Reid has offered Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) votes on three amendments, including an affirmation of support for troop funding from Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) that Democrats had resisted previously. But Reid and McConnell, who has played up what his office counts as 16 previous iterations of a Democratic proposal to change course in Iraq, had yet to agree to the terms of a debate as of press time.
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