Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/senate-debates-iraq-policy Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The Senate is considering amendments that would set a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. The NewsHour reports on the debate. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Should we stay, or should we go? The Senate reignited that debate today. NewsHour congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports.SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D), California: How many more explosive devices are going to blow up in the faces of our troops before we start bringing them home? KWAME HOLMAN: The Senate Democrats pushing for a redeployment of troops from Iraq expect the situation there will only get worse. U.S. troops continue to die — 29 so far this month — as the sectarian violence they're policing continues. The Congressional Research Service says the war is costing $10 billion a month. And a White House report later this week is expected to conclude that Iraqi leaders have not met a series of benchmarks required by Congress.Michigan Democrat Carl Levin is chairman of the Armed Services Committee.SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), Michigan: Without setting a date to begin a phased reduction of troops and a phased redeployment of troops, there is much too little pressure on the Iraqi leaders to do what only they can do, which is to work out a political settlement.