The House has narrowly passed the war-funding bill backing a nonbinding timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The final vote was 218 to 208.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “By placing an unacceptable strain on our military, this war is undermining our ability to protect the American people. Instead of making the American people safer, the war in Iraq has weakened our ability to protect our nation from the threat posed by international terrorism.”