WASHINGTON — President Bush scolded Congress for its meager accomplishments as lawmakers returned Monday for a short session.
Taxes, spending, paying for the war, energy, farm subsidies and wiretapping top a list of items Congress will consider in the three weeks.
“I call on members to use the time left to support our troops and to protect our citizens, prevent harmful tax increases and responsibly fund our government.” He said lawmakers should quite trying to make war funding conditional on a timetable for withdrawing troops.
“We could have already given our troops what they need in Iraq and funded our critical needs at home if not for the stubborn refusal of President Bush and his Republican enablers to work with us,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
