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CNN: Sen. Clinton confronts McCain over blocked 9/11 funds
March 30, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought a $45 million amendment to the war spending bill for a 9/11 responders' health care program.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, described as frustrated and animated, confronted presidential rival Sen. John McCain on the Senate floor after he blocked funding for a 9/11 responders' health care program, people familiar with the encounter told CNN.
Clinton, D-New York, has worked for years to secure funding for the program, a $45 million amendment added to the $120 billion-plus emergency funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"She got pretty hot about it," a Senate appropriations committee aide said about Thursday's encounter. "She went over to him and was trying to convince <mccain> it was a needed program, an important program, and was rebuffed."
McCain, R-Arizona, and two other fiscal conservatives, Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, and Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, objected to Clinton's amendment -- and its $45 million price tag.
The objection forced Democratic leaders to withdraw the amendment.
McCain supports the 9/11 program but wants it funded during through the regular appropriations process, his office said....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/30/clinton.mccain/i... </mccain>
March 30, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought a $45 million amendment to the war spending bill for a 9/11 responders' health care program.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, described as frustrated and animated, confronted presidential rival Sen. John McCain on the Senate floor after he blocked funding for a 9/11 responders' health care program, people familiar with the encounter told CNN.
Clinton, D-New York, has worked for years to secure funding for the program, a $45 million amendment added to the $120 billion-plus emergency funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"She got pretty hot about it," a Senate appropriations committee aide said about Thursday's encounter. "She went over to him and was trying to convince <mccain> it was a needed program, an important program, and was rebuffed."
McCain, R-Arizona, and two other fiscal conservatives, Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, and Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, objected to Clinton's amendment -- and its $45 million price tag.
The objection forced Democratic leaders to withdraw the amendment.
McCain supports the 9/11 program but wants it funded during through the regular appropriations process, his office said....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/30/clinton.mccain/i... </mccain>
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Hilliary is pissed off!!! Way to goooo!!! 