Anti-Surge Measure to Have Bipartisan Stamp

January 17, 2007
Anti-Surge Measure to Have Bipartisan Stamp

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, an outspoken Republican critic of the administration's Iraq policy, will join two leading Democrats in introducing a resolution opposing President Bush's buildup of troops in Iraq, putting a bipartisan stamp on the looming
Congressional showdown over the war.

Lawmakers and aides said Mr. Hagel had been consulting for the past few days with the two
Democrats, Senators Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to develop the wording of the resolution, which could be introduced as early as Wednesday.