BYRD Alert! C-span 2 now (3:45pm Eastern)

[nostamj]

c-span.org

amendement to $87B bill....

[Sperk]

1. tuning in...thanks

n/t

[Sperk]

2. reconstruction team, reports only to pres. and defense dept.

doesn't Byrd know that Congress is irrelevent now?

[indigo11153]

3. Oh thanks

I love this man!

[revcarol]

4. Please put link,

or do play by play...Thanks.

[nostamj]

5. link in first post

www.c-span.org

[Atman]

6. Amazing...

Byrd is pointing out that Bush signed a directive giving Paul Bremmer and the CPA all executive, judicial and legislative authority to do whatever it needs to rebuild Iraq in any way it sees fit, with NO oversight other than Bush.

Constitution? We don't need no constitution!

Go Byrd. PLEASE, everyone, send an e-mail to CNN, ABC, NBC, et al, and demand they cover this.

*Sigh* But they won't.

[Q]

7. Byrd will give a stirring and truthful speech...

...and the Democrats will continue to ignore him. What a shame the Democratic party has become.

[Sperk]

8. they're gonna have to go fist to cuffs on the senate floor before

the networks will cover it. Go ahead Byrd-DECK SOMEONE!!!!:evilgrin:

[Cheswick2.0]

29. will the republicans listen?

or how about the third party senators? Oh yeah, there aren't any. so I guess tearing down the only hope we have seems productive to you? Why not do something positive Q? You can post all the negative shit you want here, but what are you accomplishing?

[gully]

27. Your right they wont cover it. That way the can perpetuate the myth

that Dems don't speak out.

Helps them get third party votes, and Bush re-elected dontcha know.

[revcarol]

9. "Our money will disappear in a whirl of WH propaganda and

wartime profiteering." GO, BYRD!!

[hobbes159]

10. Byrd needs a new tie.

Yuck.

[kentuck]

13. Yeah, let's criticize his tie....

Forget what he had to say. Very smart.

[nostamj]

16. thanks for the cogent political commentary...

not.

please... how utterly insipid.

[Q]

17. What do 'ties' have to do with the amendment?

- Byrd is talking about how the senate has relinquished their right and Constitutional duty to make sure all tax money is wisely spent. Bush* has circumvented the people's representatives and refused to give an accounting of where the money is going.

- This makes war profiteering easier for the Bushies...but it's against everything the Constitution stands for.

[otohara]

11. Stevens Up, He's Got A Mean Streak

I don't like him one bit - Missed Sen. Byrd's speech

[revcarol]

12. We sent him flowers,

now you can send him a new tie.

Talk about shallow. OOPS, I forgot, that's the Republican way.

[Mari333]

14. I write to Byrd , please thank him

for speaking out

http://byrd.senate.gov/

[proud patriot]

22. My letter to Byrd

Dear honorable Senator ,

It's been awhile since I wrote to say THANK YOU.
So Thanks for all you do . I'm so glad your here
a Patriot to our beloved Constitution and to our
Soldiers . You inspired me to adopt a soldier
to send care packages and letters to. His family
is unable to send him things to better his time
in Iraq . He sent me a picture and now instead
of writing to a stranger I am writing a friend .

I was opposed to this invasion before ,and now every
time another soldier gets wounded or killed I worry .
He's been away from home for a year , and been in
Iraq for 6 months . Let's try hard to get him home
safe please . I'd like to meet my friend someday.

Thanks again ,
Proud Patriot

[welshTerrier2]

15. Great Quote by Byrd

throwing the $87 billion into Iraq without far more accountability would be throwing money into "a whirling storm of White House rhetoric and wartime profiteering" ....

[revcarol]

18. Stevens refused for a while to let them take a vote

because the accountability should be an ADMINISTRATION function, not a Congressional function!! Sure let's let the administration audit itself and report to itself, and then let Congress have the summary that omits all details!!

Taking the vote now.

[revcarol]

19. Byrd bill passes.

Unanimous, even Frist. Now they will try to kill it in conference.As Stevens implied.

[Rose Siding]

20. They couldn't oppose it in front of anyone!

They might be held individually responsible...or even...accountable! :scared:

[Nottingham]

21. WHOO HOO! Brydie

:bounce: Ya gotta lov em!

[revcarol]

23. 97-0

Yeah, Byrd.
Stevens is trying to get them to vote on Democratic amendments that have not been filed.Trying to get a bunch of accountability amendments, all different, into the conference report so they can get rid of the one with MEAT: Byrd's amendment.

[Pastiche423]

24. Coming in late -

What is Byrd's amendment?

[revcarol]

25. Congress would have oversight of the Iraq reconstruction funds,

through THEIR accounting mechanisms and the Bushies would have to report to Congress on how the money is being spent. Not just Bremer or Rummy deciding how the money is spent and keeping it secret, and NOT the administation self-policing itself and reporting to itself.
The first report would be due in JANUARY 2004.

FORGET WHETHER IT IS omb THAT IS ATTACHED TO cONGRESS, OR WHAT.But it would be the Congressional accounting arm that reports to Congress, NOT the IG or any other Bush agency.

Now have I sufficiently confused you?

Bush, Rummy, Condi & Bremer are being set up. The pork will be obvious.

[Pastiche423]

26. My Reader's Digest take ...

In order to get funds for Iraq, Congress must o-kay all funds 1st?

AND that amendment just passed 97-0?

[revcarol]

28. Now some repug senator(SC) has some amendment ,weird, about the Iraq war

making things safer for ISRAEL!! Commended our troops for their sacrifice for the state of ISRAEL. mCcONNELL now speaking: one less terrorist state in the region. Israel benefits as much as we do and even more.Contributes to peace in ME and eventual settlement in ME. YUKKO, I'm turning this off.