SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS/AP) -- Just hours before the House is expected to vote on an Iraq funding bill, police rousted demonstrators camped outside Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Pacific Heights residence.
Gone are the tents, tables, banners, candles and flowers. All that remained early this morning of the so-called "Camp Pelosi" was a handful of people sleeping in vehicles.
"We're going to set up camp again tomorrow, as soon as we check with the lawyers," said a protestor who identified himself with the group Veterans for Peace. "We're pretty sure we're right that they can't just come, and they claim they had a neighbor complain."
Most of the group has been present for a dozen or so days, opposing any additional funding for the war.
Meanwhile, House Democrats are increasingly confident they have the votes to pass legislation designed to force an end to the war in Iraq next year.
Several party members dropped their opposition to the bill following days of wrangling within a deeply divided caucus. The House planned to vote Friday on a $124 billion bill that would finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but require combat troops return home before September 2008.
The measure is unlikely to sail unchanged through the Senate, where many Democrats oppose a firm timetable on the war. And President Bush has promised to veto the bill if it ever makes its way to his desk.
Still, Democratic supporters say passage would mark a major step toward ending the war. The bill would be Congress' first binding challenge to the war since it started four years ago and cost the lives of more than 3,200 U.S. troops.
``This is a good compromise bill that has the virtue of setting a date certain,'' said Rep. Albert Wynn, D-Md.
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KCBS' Tim Ryan reports
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