Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), one of the 51 House Democrats to vote against $96.7 billion in war funding for Afghanistan and Iraq: “As the mission has grown bigger, the policy has grown even more vague.” The measure passed 368-60. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

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