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07/27/2010 05:54 P (EST)
WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Legislation providing another $60 billion to finance the U.S. wars in Iraq an Afghanistan was sent to President Obama Tuesday.
The House of Representatives voted 308-114 in favor of the war spending measure, Fox News reported. On the "no" side were 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans, the network said.
The final bill sent to the president was not the one the House had approved initially. That one had been loaded with billions more in domestic spending, but the Senate stripped those provisions out and sent the bill back to the lower house.
House doves also were unable to marshal support to cut or end funding for the wars, Fox said. Without the additional funding, the war effort would have been affected next month, military leaders said.
Tuesday's vote was conducted under special House rules that required a two-thirds vote for approval. That meant it needed at least 281 votes to pass.
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