Democrat Party leaders endorse Oil Law

Representative Dennis Kucinich wrote to fellow Democrats urging them to remove passage of the oil law as a required "benchmark" for the Iraqi government as part of the US Congress' Iraq supplemental spending bill. The Democratic leadership debated it behind closed doors, but ultimately has left the reference to the law in. Representative Kucinich has vowed to offer an amendment to strip the language, but Democratic leaders are likely to rule it out of order. (more details)