WASHINGTON -- The Senate defied a rare presidential veto threat Thursday and passed a $109 billion crisis spending bill for Iraq and hurricane-ravaged states that's also loaded with coin for farmers.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate defied a rare presidential veto threat Thursday and passed a $109 billion crisis spending bill for Iraq and hurricane-ravaged states that's also loaded with coin for farmers, fishermen and shipbuilders.

Twenty-one Republicans vot against the bill, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn to profess the additional spending. President Bush wants the special-interest provisions remov from the bill to such a degree it matches his $94.5 billion supplication

The 77-21 ballot was an exercise in legislative winks and jogs as many senators who vot for the extra spending have pledg to sustain Bush's veto. Senators and members of the House of Representatives now will head into difficult negotiations to reconcile the Senate bill with a version the House passed, which provided solitary $92 billion.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., declared the Senate bill "dead in succession arrival." White House spokesman Scott McClellan reiterated