Posted: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:29 PM by Mark Murray
Senate leaders are likely to move a defense measure on the week of the 17th that essentially calls for a withdrawal to begin later this year, but drops language that would require completion by April 30, 2008. "We are not backing off anything," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters today, while adding in the next breath that "we need 60 votes" -- a threshold that they have been repeatedly unable to meet this year on war votes. "There is nothing off the table on Iraq," he said.
The sixty vote threshold has been an issue. It inhibited the 2006 Democratic majority and it is a problem yet today. The health care vote brought focus to it, but, it was there as an issue the entire time.
