Meanwhile, the House has passed a $162 billion war-funding bill to keep funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill was approved by a vote of 268-155. As the House approved the war-funding bill, a protester in the visitor’s gallery began throwing red-stained dollars at lawmakers. Minority Leader Republican John Boehner said he was pleased with the vote.

Rep. John Boehner: “A compromise is a compromise. And I want to thank my Democrat colleagues for working with us to get to this point, and I want to thank them for their commitment, that this is the bill. This is the bill that will end up on the President’s desk.”

Many Democrats criticized the bill for not setting any conditions on President Bush. This is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “So, let us think and hope that this is the last time that there will ever be another dollar spent without constraints, without conditions, without direction. Why should we trust the same judgment that got us here in the first place in this war?”

The House also voted to approve spending $63 billion to expand college aid for veterans of the two wars.