Posted on 10/06/2004 1:19:04 PM PDT by mojito
FEINSTEIN-KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO THE FY2004 DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL -- (Senate - June 03, 2003)
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Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, today I submit into the record a statement to clarify my position on the development of low yield nuclear weapons. Circumstances prevented me from voting last week on the Feinstein-Kennedy amendment to the FY2004 defense authorization bill which would have struck any provisions that might permit research, development, testing, or deployment of low yield nuclear weapons. At the time, my vote was announced as an ``aye'' in favor of a motion to table the amendment. Through no fault of the distinguished Senator from Nevada who announced my vote, if I had been here, I would have voted ``nay,'' and supported the common sense proposal of the Senators from California and Massachusetts.
Last week, in a statement entered into the RECORD, I made clear my opposition to the development of low yield nuclear weapons, as well as the robust nuclear earth penetrator. It is absurd to think the United States will start development on a new generation of nuclear weapons at the same moment we seek the world's support in an effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and technology.
Senator Feinstein and Senator Kennedy were correct. These weapons don't make us safer. And I thank them for their continued leadership on this vital issue.
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So now Kerry blames his voting record on some sort of glitch. Maybe Kerry left a chad hanging and confused everyone or it could have been one of those tricky butterfly ballots that messed Kerry up....
In other words, the USA IS THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF NORTH KOREA, IRAN, OR OSAMA. What a sick m'f'er.
BLAME AMERICA FIRST, KERRY, YOU POS.
ping for Kerry making US nuclear weapon development the moral equivalent of North Korea's
I'm glad the Senator makes clear that he really voted against it, after first voting for it. He never met a weapons system he wouldn't vote to kill.
Anyone who votes for that SOB deserves deportation. That statement of his makes my blood boil!!! Thanks for the anger mojito, I'm ready to go visit the liberals in town now with today's Kerryism.
At the time, my vote was announced as an ``aye'' in favor of a motion to table the amendment.
The operative thing here is that it was a motion to table the amendment. In general we can assume that he was for the amendment by what he said later. SENTAOR IF YOU WERE ACTUALLY THERE FOR THE DAMN VOTE THEN THERE WOULDN"T BE ANY CONFUSION. What a dope !
Note that Kerry salutes the leadership of Feinstein and Kennedy. Leadership? They'd lead us straight into the chains of communism.
Through no fault of the distinguished Senator from Nevada who announced my vote, if I had been here, I would have voted ``nay,'' and supported the common sense proposal of the Senators from California and Massachusetts.
BwhaaHaaHaaHaaa!!!! If you had BEEN there, Senator, you would have been doing your job and earning your pay. Since you weren't, you were......???? AWOL? Fleecing your constituents? What a give away!
Imagine me telling my boss, "If I had been there, Boss, I really would have got my work done. Sorry about that! Can I have my check now? Gotta run for office, don'tcha know?"
I would not be surprised that on some occasion he would say that he fought for low yield nuclear weapons.
Good find! Whenever I see Feinswine's and Kennedy's names together, it scares me because it usually means bad things for Americans.
http://www.ananuclear.org/SenateRNEP.html#750
[The vote below is on a motion to table an amendment to prohibit funding for the bunker-busters. Table = indefinite postponement of discussion and consideration.]
May 21, 2003
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the
motion. The clerk will call the roll.
Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Graham), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) are necessarily absent.
I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) would vote ``nay''. . . .
The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 41. . .
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