This week, House Democrats gathered up the votes to confront President Bush with a deadline on pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. The timeline is part of an Iraq funding bill that barely passed the House by a vote of 218-212. Thomas E. Mann talks with NPR’s All Things Considered about how Democrats managed the narrow win and what it could mean for the future of the Iraq War.
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Iraq Deadline and the Democratic Congress
March 23, 2007