Senate voting now on the Cloture Motion on the omnibus appropriations bill

[goobergunch]

This bill includes the WH OT rules, among other things.

The correct vote IMHO is :thumbsdown:. 60 affirmative votes are needed to approve.

You can watch now on C-SPAN 2...the link's in my sig.

[goobergunch]

1. I think we're going to win

There has been little defection on our side.

[NewJerseyDem]

2. At least 4 republicans voted no

I heard Ensign, McCain, Snowe and Campbell all vote no so it seems like we definitely won. I don't know if they'll even get a majority. I had heard that Schumer was going to vote yes but he voted no. I heard that Inouye and Murray had also said they would vote for it. I haven't seen how they voted.

[goobergunch]

4. I heard Murray, Hollings, and Miller vote aye

I don't recall hearing Inouye's vote.

[kentuck]

3. They usually get enough Democrats to save them...

in these types of situations...

[Robbien]

5. Repubs said they had Reid. Reid said maybe yes, maybe no.

He was supposed to be the 60th yes vote, or that is what I last read. Did he vote yet?

[nostamj]

6. 48-45

does not pass

[myrna minx]

8. Whooo-hoo!

:toast:

[Robbien]

9. Dpes this mean they now have to keep spending at last year's

budget levels? And yay, no change to the ot rules!

[baby_bear]

10. No, now they debate the egrious parts that were inserted

Such as removing the block of the labor dept's overtime rules, and the block of SEC's rules on media ownership.

The conference committee went against the majority of both houses in collusion with the White House, and this is the issue.

As Daschle said, there is no need to go to a continuing resolution for the rest of the 2004 budget year, just need to get rid of these odious insertions and intrusions by the WH.

It's not over yet, not by a long shot.

s_m

[myrna minx]

7. Anyone know how Coleman voted?

I guess as of this morning, he "had not decided yet." Since he goose steps along with the Bushies, I can surmise that he will vote yea. HE makes me so ill.