Troop Withdrawal Timetable Fails in Senate

Anti-war Dems have had a bad week
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 21, 2007 4:54 PM CDT
Troop Withdrawal Timetable Fails in Senate
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., right, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., talk to reporters in Washington Friday, Sept. 21, 2007., after their amendment to reduce troops levels in Iraq failed to pass. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)   (Associated Press)

Antiwar Democrats continued their losing streak today as a Senate measure to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq didn't get enough support to keep it alive. The vote on the amendment to a defense authorization bill, which would have mandated a drawdown to begin in 120 days, was split 47 to 47. Sixty votes were needed to block a Republican filibuster.

"We didn't make it today, but we're going to keep trying," said Sen. Carl Levin, who sponsored the measure. Yesterday, the Senate voted 70-28 to defeat an amendment to cut funding for the war starting in 2008. A measure to increase the amount of time off allotted to soldiers between deployments in Iraq or Afghanistan also failed earlier this week. (More Iraq stories.)

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