In a district that had more Democrats than Republicans, 41-year-old Democratic state legislator John Murtha eked out a 230-vote victory.
Rep. John Murtha, a leading critic of the war, said the amendment would have removed any leverage the bill would give the United States over the shaky Iraqi government.
Before the House vote, Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: We're the people who decide when to go to war, whether the war should be funded.
No fewer than five American flags flanked the podium when Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha strode into a Capitol briefing room to announce his dramatic reversal on the war in Iraq.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Defense Appropriations Committee Chairman John Murtha are making a determined effort to buy the votes needed to pass legislation similar in its essentials to that just rejected by the Senate.
John Murtha, who is a Pennsylvania congressman, a veteran...
He used his 20-minute speech to try to clear the air with Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who's taken a lot of heat from Republicans for proposing a pullout from Iraq.
Yesterday at a press conference, Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops.
Steny Hoyer of Maryland beat back a determined effort by Pennsylvania's John Murtha to become the next majority leader.
Rep. John Murtha, one of the few House Democrats who - as a decorated veteran and life-long adherent to the philosophy of peace through strength - has credibility on national security matters, declared that withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq should begin immediately.
Representative JOHN MURTHA (Democrat, Pennsylvania): The American public is thirsting for a plan.
The author of the train-and-equip gambit, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), knows how to write policy changes into a military-spending bill.
House Democrat John Murtha, who's well respected on military matters, has called for a quick withdrawal, and today Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed his position.
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