Biden amendment vote now up on the senate floor

[MiniMe]

[gateley]

1. Thank you so much -- I've been scrambling to find out what was going on. Any

explanation as to why?

[MiniMe]

2. Not sure what you mean by why

It is an amendment to the spending bill. They are doing the roll call now.

[Purveyor]

5. Biden Amendment: Supports political settlement & calls for physical partitioning of Iraq into

federal regions.

This amendement is non-binding and will require 60 "Aye" votes to pass.

[MiniMe]

3. OMG, LIEberman voted for it

[MiniMe]

4. Hutchison, Brownback Aye

It is 7-1 so far, Kyl is the only one voting against. Still lots of votes to go

[MiniMe]

6. Lindsey Graham votes no, Bond votes Aye

[u2spirit]

7. Of course it's non binding

Makes it all worthwhile. What a joke.

[u2spirit]

8. Feingold votes no

Understandable since it doesn't have teeth.

[MiniMe]

9. Byrd and Feingold vote no

[MiniMe]

10. Damn, this has a good chance of passing

[TwilightGardener]

12. I think it will pass.

[Mass]

13. As it does not force Bush to do anything, only the two extremes

will vote NO:

- Those who do not even want to suggest something to *,

- Those who refuse to vote for an amendment that does nothing.

[TwilightGardener]

15. I think there's a third group--the group who just doesn't think it's a good idea.

[Mass]

16. Like whom?

[TwilightGardener]

18. Feingold and Hagel.

[Mass]

19. Sorry, I missed the debates, so may be they said so,

I would have thought Feingold voted NO because it is an empty bill, but you may be right.

But I cannot say I like this amendment.

[TwilightGardener]

25. I haven't heard from either of them about it. I always wondered

why those two were so quiet on this--don't know what rationale Feingold has. Hagel's my Senator and feels very strongly about political stuff in Iraq. Chances are he didn't think it would be beneficial for some reason.

[MiniMe]

11. Hagel and Sessions vote no

[MiniMe]

14. Hatch votes yes

hmmmm, what is in this bill??

[Mass]

17. Nothing. This is the point.

[Debi]

20. Dodd and Clinton - Aye

[Debi]

22. 75 - 23!!! AYE!!

[MiniMe]

21. Ayes 75, Nays 23. Amendment passes

[helderheid]

23. I'm sorry I'm just tuning in - what is this about?

[rodeodance]

24. and it passed, Wish we could get that many for DE-FUNDING

[moondust]

26. The beginning of the end.