In a brief statement in the White House Rose Garden, Bush also hailed House passage yesterday of a bipartisan bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into 2009 and would allow veterans of those wars to received increased education benefits. He had previously opposed the veterans' education provision and new domestic spending included in the war-funding package, threatening a presidential veto.

Telco immunity was horse traded for veteran's education benefits.

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