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House Gives Bush Deadline to Announce Non-Binding Pullout

HeadlineOct 03, 2007

On Capitol Hill, the House has overwhelmingly approved a measure giving the Bush administration two months to announce a plan for withdrawing troops from Iraq. The final vote was 377 to 46. A similar measure failed this summer after antiwar Democrats claimed it would provide meaningless bipartisan cover to continue the war. The measure does not impose a withdrawal time line or even require President Bush to implement his own plan.

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