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May 25, 2010

Measure Proposes Ending Emergency War Funding
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Democratic Congress member Alan Grayson of Florida, meanwhile, has
introduced a bill that would end funding of the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq outside of the regular Pentagon budget. Grayson unveiled the "War
is Making You Poor Act" on the House floor last week.

Rep. Alan Grayson: "It requires the administration to carry out the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan with only—that’s 'only'—the $549
billion set forth in the President’s budget for defense spending,
without the additional $159 billion the President has asked for, for the
sake of the so-called emergency war, which now stretches on to nine
years in one case and seven years in the other."

The measure calls for directing the savings from ending so-called
"emergency" war spending toward a tax cut.



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