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I was going to yell at you for not being positive, then I saw this...
War-Funding Talks Among Congressional Negotiators Collapse
Efforts by House and Senate negotiators to reconcile different versions of a war-funding bill ground to a halt Thursday after House Democrats stripped from it a provision that bans the release of photos that potentially show detainee abuse at the hands of U.S. troops.
"The provision just needs to stay in," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told FOX News.
Senate Democrats headed immediately into closed-door talks with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. President Obama got personally involved via speaker phone.
Obama "gave us his word he will not allow the photos to be released," Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said.
House and Senate negotiators plan to reconvene Thursday night.
One option, according to a Democratic senator at the war-funding negotiations, is to have the photo provision voted on as a stand-alone bill.
But Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., told FOX News he does not think there is time to pass the stand-alone bill, and many members are unsure of where the votes would go on the House side, where Democrats oppose blocking the release, which was mandated by a federal court under the Freedom of Information Act.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/11/congressional-negotiators-strike-war-funding-deal/
