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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, after the Senate passed a massive $555 billion spending bill combining funding for 14 Cabinet departments with $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007

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  • Senate Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL
  • after the Senate passed a massive $555 billion spending bill that includes additional Iraq war funds without conditions for ending the combat
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