McDermott Apparently Backing Bill to Cut off Iraq Funds

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This article names McDermott as a supporter of the McGovern bill to cut funding. However, I went to McDermott's website and it doesn't even talk about Iraq anywhere, much less cutting off the funding. He needs to speak up if he supports this bill. Has anyone else seen anything on this? Linda

"Peace and social justice groups have formed a new Mandate for Peace coalition to pressure incoming Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to use the power they will assume in January to promote the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

"The coalition is a muscular one, compromised of more than three dozen national and regional organizations with strong track records on an array of issues. It takes in anti-war activist groups such as After Downing Street, CODEPINK and Peace Action; internationalist groups such as Foreign Policy in Focus and Global Exchange; veterans groups such as Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace; religious groups such as American Muslim Voice, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Network of Spriritual Progressives and Pax Christi USA; civil rights groups such as the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the Women of Color Resource Center and political groups such as True Majority, the Bankbone Project and Progressive Democrats of America.

"The coalition is supporting legislation proposed by U.S. Representative Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, to cut off funding for the war. The McGovern bill, H.R.4232, seeks to prohibit the further use of Defense Department funds to deploy United States Armed Forces to Iraq. Funds could be used to pay for the safe and orderly withdrawal of all troops; consultations with other governments, NATO and the UN regarding international forces; and financial assistance and equipment to either Iraqi security forces and/or international forces.

"Support for the McDermott measure is growing rapidly. Almost all its 18 cosponsors (Arizona's Raul Grijalva; California's Sam Farr, Barnara Lee, Pete Stark, Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey; Illinois' Jan Schakowsky; Massachusetts' Barney Frank; Michigan's John Conyers and Carolyn Kilpatrick; New Jersey's Donald Payne; New York's Jose Serrano and Edolphus Towns and Nydia Velazquez; Ohio's Dennis Kucinich; Pennsylvania's Chaka Fattah and Washington's Jim McDermott) have added their support in recent weeks.

Link to whole article: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=144883