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Enzi backs new clean troop funding bill

While the Democratic leaders fight the President about how to change an emergency spending bill that contains funding for our troops in Iraq, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., took action by cosponsoring new legislation that would simply provide the Department of Defense with the funding it requested.

The bill, S. 1305, the Support Our Troops Act of 2007, as introduced on May 3, would provide $7 billion in funding for the continued operation of Department of Defense activities at home and overseas, but contains no pork and no timeline for troop withdrawal from Iraq. Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., an ardent anti-pork senator, authored the bill.

"This bill is simple. It provides troops the funding they need to continue operations in Iraq and overseas. That's what they've asked for. That's what they need. That's what they should get," Enzi said. "It is a clean bill that focuses on one thing - supporting our troops. You won't find money for peanut storage or spinach growers in this bill. It is about the troops and I am pleased to put my name on this bill."

Enzi said President George W. Bush vetoed a different military emergency funding bill last week put forth by Democratic leaders in the House and Senate. Enzi encouraged and supported the President's veto because it was laden with pork projects and tied the hands of our military leaders by setting a surrender date for American troops.

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