Supplemental Battle Begins

Obama Gives War Spending New Appeal

• By Steven T. Dennis
• Roll Call Staff
• May 5, 2009, Midnight

House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) on Monday outlined a $94 billion war spending bill — $9 billion more than President Barack Obama has requested — without a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq or binding restrictions on the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.