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July 18, 2007

Senate blocks Reed push to remove troops from Iraq

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has again blocked an effort, led in part by Sen. Jack Reed, to force President Bush to begin removing troops from Iraq this fall and to complete a sharp contraction of the American war mission by next spring.

By a vote of 52 to 47, Democratic leadership failed to muster the super majority needed to limit debate on the Reed measure.

The parliamentary test vote appeared to suggest that Democrat Reed, of Rhode Island, and his allies have scored a marginal gain in the bipartisan support for legislation that carries legal deadlines for the U.S. force reductions.

But the vote underscored a reluctance to legislate a change of course in Iraq -- even among Republicans who have grown skeptical of President Bush's war strategy.

-- John Mulligan, Journal Washington bureau.

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