The Senate overwhelmingly passed its fiscal 2008 spending bill for military construction and veterans’ affairs Thursday, adding emergency funding for security at next year’s national political conventions.

The bill, passed by a 92-1 vote, would provide $109.3 billion for military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs in fiscal 2008 — $4.1 billion more than the president requested. But the White House has indicated Bush will sign the politically popular bill in its current form.

Appropriators have a small window of time — slightly more than three weeks — to reconcile rival House and Senate spending measures before the end of the current fiscal year.

By a 76-15 vote, the Senate approved the addition of $100 million in emergency spending for security at the 2008 political conventions in St. Paul, Minn., and Denver, Colo. The amendment was sponsored by Sen. Norm Coleman, D-Minn.

The Senate bill, which would provide $64.8 billion in discretionary spending with the addition of the convention security funding, tracks closely with the version the House passed June 15. It would provide substantial increases for the Veterans Affairs Department, which would get $43 billion, or $3.6 billion more than Bush sought. The House bill would provide $43.2 billion.

Military construction accounts would receive $21.6 billion in the Senate bill, $391 million more than Bush requested and $3.6 billion more than the amount appropriated for fiscal 2007.