Frist Suspends Senate Ethics Debate After Losing on Dubai Vote

[ProSense]

Frist Suspends Senate Ethics Debate After Losing on Dubai Vote

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suspended debate on overhauling lobbying rules after the chamber refused to prevent a vote on blocking a state-owned Dubai company from taking over terminals at six American ports.

The Republicans couldn't come up with the 67 votes needed to prevent the Senate from considering an amendment to the lobbying legislation that would have blocked DP World from running the ports. The 51-47 vote in favor of shutting off debate was mostly along party lines.

After the vote, Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said he would delay action on the lobbying and ethics legislation until the Senate sponsors approved a list of amendments and blocked unrelated proposals. He gave no date for resuming debate, and the sponsor of the ports amendment, Senator Charles Schumer, said he still wanted a vote on that issue.

``We've had a totally unrelated amendment injected, I believe, for partisan purposes,'' Frist said, referring to the ports provision submitted by Schumer, a New York Democrat.


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[MadMaddie]

1. So he is throwing a temper tantrum because he lost the ports deal

So he suspends the Ethics committee...his very actions are ethically questionable....

:popcorn:

[swag]

2. What a whiner Frist is.

Can't he do anything but whine like a baby?

[ucmike]

3. that's very adult of you, mr. frist.

go ahead, take your ball and go home. nobody here likes you anyway, crybaby.

[Wickerman]

4. Sucks when things are partisan and they aren't on your side

huh, Mr. Cat Killer?

[ThomCat]

5. As if he EVER objects when republicans

insert unrelated amendments! He just wants one set of rules for Dems, and no rules for Republicans.

[swag]

6. Wait, it gets better. The whiny titty-baby turned his back on reporters.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/09.html#a7456

[ladjf]

7. Frist is a major roadblock to the Senate's being able to do it's

work. That situation needs to be remedied.

[ProSense]

8. Very Fancy Frist

http://www.veryfancyfrist.com/