National

Bush Renews Veto Threat of Congress' Iraq Bill

By Don Gonyea

Published April 23, 2007 at 1:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

President Bush has renewed his vow to veto any funding for the Iraq war if Congress attaches a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.

The president spoke with his Iraq commander, Gen. David Petraeus, at his side. But before the day was out, Democratic leaders on the Hill had announced that their bill would set a non-binding target date of April 1, 2008.

Become a KPBS sponsor

National

Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.