House fails to overturn Bush veto
[Aljazeera version with star Nancy Pelosi on front page]
english.aljazeera.net ^ | 5-2-2007 | staff writer
The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives has failed to overturn the US president's veto of a war-funding bill that would have set a timetable for withdrawing US forces from Iraq.
By a vote of 222-203 on Wednesday, the house fell far short of the two-thirds support needed to override George Bush's veto.
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