Posted on 06/22/2004 11:01:57 AM PDT by Osage Orange
Senate Keeps Casket Policy
Washington-
The Senate refused Monday to change a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead as their caskets arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The 54-39 Senate negative vote defeated an amendment to the authorization bill for the Defense Department that would have required the Pentagon to produce a protocol in 60 days to regulate media coverage of the returning dead.
I wonder who authored that amendment.
Not John F'n K. He's been absent from the Senate 87% of the votes so far this year .....
Just another example of media bias..........
Sigh..........
Good. ... those rotten MSM bloodsuckers. Make your headlines elsewhere.
I'm not sure....I would also like to know the vote results.
How is John Kerry's vote recorded on this issue? That is, if he did not later switch it.
Purpose will be available when the amendment is proposed for consideration. See Congressional Record for text.
Here's the voting...
| YEAs ---39 | ||
| Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Daschle (D-SD) Dayton (D-MN) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Edwards (D-NC) |
Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Graham (D-FL) Harkin (D-IA) Hollings (D-SC) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) |
Lieberman (D-CT) McCain (R-AZ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Snowe (R-ME) Stabenow (D-MI) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs ---54 | ||
| Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Bond (R-MO) Breaux (D-LA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Campbell (R-CO) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Chambliss (R-GA) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) |
Crapo (R-ID) DeWine (R-OH) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Frist (R-TN) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Levin (D-MI) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) |
Lugar (R-IN) McConnell (R-KY) Miller (D-GA) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Nickles (R-OK) Pryor (D-AR) Roberts (R-KS) Santorum (R-PA) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Talent (R-MO) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) |
| Not Voting - 7 | ||
| Alexander (R-TN) Bennett (R-UT) Clinton (D-NY) |
Dodd (D-CT) Inhofe (R-OK) Kerry (D-MA) |
Thomas (R-WY) |
Your internationalist liberal hate-mongers at work.
How did KF'king Kerry vote on the Global Warming (Kyoto) treaty when the Senate voted it down under Clinton's regime?
I could not help but think that the producers of the West Wing shot this scene with the sole intent to shame the real President for not going to Dover or permitting the media to show the caskets of the KIA in Iraq.
I was actually surprised that Levin (D-MI) voted with the Republicans.
It must be the medication he is on for his recent injury (leg?, back?, whatever).
Peter Fitzgerald (R-Il.) also voted for it.
Damn, them Democrats and the Liberal Media. Thankfully, the Republicans have some dignity and would not want the War Dead shown no matter who was President at the time.
When I first thought about the vote tally.....I actually wondered aloud about McCain's vote, and figured that he being a veteran...wouldn't want the media to profit off of war dead. Sadly I was wrong...McCain continues to fall further to port.
FRegards,
I'm not sure off-hand how he voted on Kyoto, Mr. Cook. Probably FOR, though.FOX News just said that Kerry did go to D.C. to vote on something today.
But I'm not sure what issue he went there to vote on.
And this is part of my "Media Bias" point. The POTUS doesn't have anything to do with the media being allowed there or not......
FWIW-
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