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According to Politico, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are poised to turn up the heat this summer on the Bush Administration. They're expected to announce today a coordinated effort throughout July to force the Administration to end the war in Iraq, through a series of votes.

ThinkProgress also has coverage of this emerging story:

Reid has already publicly declared that Senate Democrats will offer four Iraq-related amendments to the upcoming 2008 Defense authorization bill, including a proposal by Reid and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) to set a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by next spring.

Pelosi is planning to announce that the House will also vote on a bill setting a new withdrawal timetable of April 1, 2008, although the details of the proposal were still up in the air at press time, according to Democratic sources. The House will consider this proposal as a freestanding bill, said the sources.

Pelosi is also planning to force a vote on a proposal by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, to repeal the 2002 use-of-force resolution for Iraq. […]

In addition, House Democrats will push proposals to prohibit the creation of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, as well as a “readiness” initiative similar to that authored by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.).

This means it's time for us to let our elected officials know we support them on these topics. We saw how they backed off when Bush threatened veto for the last war funding bill. Let them know you want them to stand up to Bush and Dr. Strangelove, aka Dick Cheney.

Call and tell your Senators and Representatives and tell them you support them on this tough political fight to end the war in Iraq.