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This week’s House debate on a non-binding resolution disapproving of President Bush’s Iraq policy isn’t a genuine debate, but rather a sequence of speeches.
However, the vote on the resolution will give indications of how members might vote in March on the president’s request for $100 billion in additional funds for Iraq and Afghanistan.
At the left are four members of Congress to watch as indicators to how the funding vote might come out. Click on one of those names for more details.";
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A former political science professor, Loebsack was a neophyte candidate who beat Republican Rep. Jim Leach last November, even though Leach had voted against the Iraq war in 2002.
In October Loebsack said, “We need to set a goal of at least being out of Iraq in the next 12 months.”
In January he said he’d vote for the spending bill for Iraq when it comes to a vote. “I do favor conditions” limiting how President Bush spends the money, he said. But “if there were a straight up-or-down vote at the moment, I would not vote against the appropriations — in large part because I have relatives who have been there” serving in uniform in Iraq.";
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A veteran of nine terms in the House, Walsh nearly lost his seat last November to Democrat Dan Maffei due in part to the unpopularity of the Iraq war in his Syracuse-based district.
Walsh has signaled that he’ll vote for the resolution of disapproval of President Bush’s policy, despite pleas from National Security advisor Stephen Hadley at a White House meeting last week.
Walsh told Hadley, “There is very little support, from where I come from, for this increase in troop strength.” Walsh has pledged to keep funding the troops in Iraq.";
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Boyda scored an upset win over Republican Rep. Jim Ryun, but got only 50.6 percent of the vote and has one of the most Republican-leaning seats held by a Democrat.
“We better find another way to get this (exit of U.S. troops from Iraq) done other than cutting off funds,” Boyda said in December. Last month she said she’d vote for funding to support more troops in Iraq. “I have always said I would support our men and women (in the military) and certainly their families as well,\" Boyda said. \"I think that's going to leave me with a very troubling vote, and that is to fund military operations that I consider to be misguided.”";
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Marshall, an Army veteran and up to now a supporter of Bush’s Iraq policy, called the president's Jan. 10 speech in which he announced his troop surge, “a plausible thing to try” but he has called for reducing the number of U.S. conventional forces in Iraq while increasing the size of Special Operations forces and doing more training of Iraqis.";
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