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CQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE
June 10, 2009 – 1:55 p.m.
Action on a final version of a war spending bill appears imminent, as House Democrats on Wednesday reportedly prevailed in their battle to keep language out of the measure barring public release of prisoner abuse photographs.
House leaders were preparing to appoint conferees on the bill, setting up a joint session with Senate negotiators shortly thereafter, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John B. Larson , D-Conn., said. Floor action is likely Thursday.
Rep. Louise M. Slaughter , R-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, said the conference report will definitely not contain language, found in the Senate’s version, which would bar for three years the disclosure of images of U.S. war on terror prisoners taken from Sept. 11, 2001, to Jan. 22, 2009.
