Feingold legislation Will End War Funds. Reid Says OK

This is just a quick diary to report somebreaking news at Brad Blog. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Rus Feingold will introduce legislation to cut off war funding and Majority Leader Reid will support him.

JUST IN: FEINGOLD TO PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO END WAR, CUT OFF FUNDING
Majority Leader Reid Set to Support Along with 8 Other Senate Co-Sponsors So Far
Exceptions for Funds Cutoff to Be Made for Fighting Terrorists, Security for U.S. Troops and Infrastructure, Training of Iraqi Security Services...

In a statement just sent to The BRAD BLOG, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) says he is prepared to up the ante in the fight with the White House in light of Bush's spending bill veto, and will be proposing that war funding be cut off by a date certain.

Feingold adds that his proposed legislation has a number of co-sponsors already on board in the Senate.

A bit more after fold...

In addition to Reid's commitment to support the bill, the co-sponsors already on board as listed at Feingold's website include Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

Feingold's statement...

“With brave Americans fighting and dying for a failed policy in Iraq, members of Congress shouldn’t delay action to end this misguided war for weeks or even months just for the sake of political comfort. That is why, when the Senate takes up the Iraq supplemental, I plan to offer the Feingold-Reid bill as an amendment to force the President to safely redeploy our troops by March 31, 2008 at which point funding for the war would be cut off.”

The proposed legislation is posted at Brad Blog. I will delete this if this has already been diaried.