So just the other day we were talking about where the big Democrat plan was they promised us to lower gas prices. Evidently, some Republicans in Congress are wondering the same thing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has agreed to block U.S. funding for Iraq reconstruction projects worth more than $2 million and to try to force Baghdad to cover the costs of training and equipping the country’s security forces.

The provision, included in a 2009 defense policy bill approved this week by the Senate Armed Services Committee, comes as Democrats draft a similar provision within separate legislation that would cover this year’s war spending.

The efforts are part of the latest push on Capitol Hill to get Iraq to spend more of its own money and spare U.S. taxpayers. Democrats and many Republicans say it is unfair that Iraq is looking at pulling in as much as $70 billion in oil revenues this year while Americans grapple with soaring fuel prices at the pump.

The AP

Way to go!  It is financially irresponsible and inconceivable to be spending millions of American tax dollars on Iraqi infrastructure while our own country is $9 trillion in the hole and has plenty of its own needs.  They have $70 billion in oil revenue.  That’s not enough for them to start paying for themselves?