Withdrawal Language Makes It Through The Senate

  As you may know by now, the Senate passed the bill for the Iraq war funding with its withdrawal deadlines still intact, by a very close vote.

50-48-2 was the vote and the following is a record of how the Democrats and the Republicans voted. Go to the  U.S. Senate for the complete rundown.

   The Short version from Daily Kos  Tue Mar 27, 2007

Democrats voting for amendment (or the wrong way):

Mark Pryor (AR)

Independents voting for it:

Joe Lieberman (CT)

Republicans voting against it:

Chuck Hagel (NE)
Gordon Smith (OR)

Not voting:

Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)

This means that the following Republicans facing tough or potentially tough reelection battles in 2008 just voted to escalate Bush's war with no accountability. These guys just voted to attach themselves even closer to Bush's hip:

Norm Coleman (MN)
Susan Collins (ME)
John Cornyn (TX)
Liddy Dole (NC)
Pete Domenici (NM)
Mitch McConnel (KY)
Pete Sessions (AL)
John Sununu (NH)
John Warner (VA)

Reid did an incredible job of keeping Democrats together. I mean, he even brought Ben Nelson aboard! Pretty impressive.

 

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