Pelosi: "There won’t be any more war supplementals"

By Kayleigh Harvey and Celia Canon

At her weekly press conference today Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said: "There won’t be any more war supplementals. We have no expectation of that. My message to the members’ is the President has re-focused our efforts in Afghanistan, he has a path to ending the war in Iraq that will happen. So we have a plan for both places and this is the President’s request to fund that. I hope you can vote for it."
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Federal power in transportation is "ridiculous," says Transportation Secretary

At the State Summit on Innovative Transportation Funding and Financing, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters says that the need for federal government authorization for transportation initiatives on the state level is "ridiculous." She says that she will propose a new program to remove federal restrictions regarding transportation. She adds that federal programs should focus on "things that are truly in the federal interest."(1:04)
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Senator Kent Conrad, (D-ND) the Senate Budget Committee Chairman, asks about the war funding request during a hearing on the 2009 Defense budget

Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad, says he is disappointed with the estimate of $70 billion for supplemental war funding for 2009. (0:47)
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Assistant Secretary of Defense Gordon England speaks about the incomplete estimate for supplemental war funding during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the 2009 Defense budget

Assistant Secretary of Defense Gordon England explains why the Department of Defense has only requested a partial amount of the supplemental war funding for the fiscal year 2009. (0:54)
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Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND) gives an opening statement at a hearing on the 2009 Department of Defense Budget

Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad speaks about early administration estimates of the cost of the war in Iraq during a hearing on the Department of Defense Budget hearing. (1:07)
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