[Dark Skies]

[Lexington Green]

''BUSH AND THE HOUSE OF SAUD'' - read it and weep.

[Carry_Okie]

One for you.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Gutless, spineless, balless US CongressCritters. I'd like to get rid of all 535 of the worthless traitors, and elect Real Conservative Americans into the US Congress, to get done what needs to be done to save America. With those 535 seditionists, we're being thrown under the bus on a daily basis.

[rob777]

Does anyone know what the roll call for the bill is?

[ansel12]

Every time I read this stuff,

I remember that years ago,
when a conservative tried to give Yale 20 million dollars for a Western Civ.department,they refused the money.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

"Congressman Dan Burton®"

Odd, is his name trademarked? :)

[rob777]

It looks like a version of the bill passed on 3/30 see:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/bills/h_r_609/

I wonder what the difference was? In both cases most of the Dems voted against it.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

One part "Most of the terrorists who are killing American soldiers in Iraq have been found to be Saudi nationals."

I would like to see the data on this. My money would be on the Iranians and their paid Islamofascists from the middle east.

[Cicero]

I have often heard that all the Arabists in the State Department retire on generous Saudi pensions if they have been good little supporters of the Saudis, which they always are. I believe this may be true of others who are in positions of influence concerning matters that the Saudis are interested in.

[Billthedrill]

Yet for all the “educational assistance” sent abroad, Saudi Arabia’s own illiteracy rate has remained at nearly 50% of its population.

Literacy isn't the point of the madrasas. Indoctrination is.

[Dumb_Ox]

How deep does the money go? Apparently with the failure of this bill, we won't know. There have been reports of top-flight Arabic-language American university departments refusing to cooperate with students funded by our intelligence agencies. Perhaps they do this for financial as well as ideological reasons.

[Clintonfatigued]

ping

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[rmlew]

Actually HR 609 passed.
House Ammendment 757 failed 120-306.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll072.xml
Here is the breakdown:

98 Republicans and 22 Democrats voted Yea. 130 Republicans and 175 Democrats voted Nea.
Sadly more Republicans voted against the Ammendment than the total votes for it!