A deeply-divided U.S. Senate on Wednesday refused to prune an emergency spending bill to finance the war in Iraq and hurricane rebuilding, defying a veto threat from President George W. Bush. On a series of votes, the Republican-controlled Senate backed a $106.5 billion measure that also contains several projects not directly related to war or hurricanes. Some conservatives want to kill those projects. The White House on Tuesday said Bush would veto any bill that spends more than $94.5 billion. (Reuters, Thursday)
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