Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/house-approves-timetable-for-iraq-withdrawal Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Ignoring a threatened veto from President Bush, the House of Representatives voted 218-212 Friday to require the president to pull combat forces out of Iraq by the fall of 2008. Kwame Holman reports on the move by Congress to try to end the four-year-old conflict. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. KWAME HOLMAN: All week long, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she needed only 218 votes for the House to approve restrictions on the president's conduct of the Iraq war. Today, in the closest of votes, she got 218.REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), Speaker of the House: I stand here with great pride on this historic day in the Congress of the United States. Proudly, this new Congress voted to bring an end to the war in Iraq. KWAME HOLMAN: But securing passage of the $124 billion emergency spending bill, which ties war funding to the withdrawal of U.S. troops, took substantial arm-twisting, much of it by Pelosi herself. She personally lobbied the four leaders of the Democrats' anti-war faction to convince some of their colleagues to support her. Ten agreed.One was freshman Yvette Clarke of New York.REP. YVETTE CLARKE (D), New York: It was a very emotional vote for me. I mean, I took a lot of — took a lot of soul-searching. I prayed. I kind of just really dug in deep on this vote.You know, I come from a district in Brooklyn where it's the epicenter of the anti-war movement. And, again, just thinking about the number of funerals I have attended, dealing with the families in the community that is grieving over this loss, I want to see our troops come home. I want to see them come home yesterday.And, so, this vote, again, I had to really make sure that what I was doing was moving us to that end. And I do believe this is the beginning of the end of the Iraq war. KWAME HOLMAN: Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett said he was one of the final members to go from undecided to yes.REP. LLOYD DOGGETT (D), Texas: In 13 years, I don't know of a more difficult vote for me personally. I'm very dissatisfied with the bill that passed. But, in the — after the debate, it was clear that it was a vote between a modest step to end the war, and joining the Republicans for endless war.