Senate defeats bill to condition foreign aid to cooperation in investigating embassy attacks

washington Post ^ | 9/21/2012 | ap

[tobyhill]

The Senate has defeated a bill that would have conditioned foreign aid on a country’s cooperation in investigating attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities.

The bill also would have denied aid to Pakistan unless that country releases Dr. Shakil Afridi. Pakistan arrested the doctor, who allegedly helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden by running a fake vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA. The objective was to verify bin Laden’s presence at the compound where the al-Qaida leader was later killed.

Afridi was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison. The United States has sought his release.

[tobyhill]

Democrat Controlled Senate.

Pakistan jails the doctor that helped our SEALs get Bin Laden but the Democrats in the Senate still want to give Pakistan billions of taxpayer's money to hate us.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

Unfortunately, 80 Senators voted against it so the Rats are not the only ones to blame.

[VaRepublican]

Both warner and webb from va. voted against.

[tobyhill]

The RINOs will pay the political price in due time. The Rats are going to lose the Senate and they know it.

[SueRae]

Remember in November. This makes me sick.

[Texas Fossil]

Here is the Thomas Register listing on the bill.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:1:./temp/~c112ODJ26n::

I have not been able to find where there was a roll call vote on it.

Was it defeated in committee? That is different than a roll call on the legislation.

[trebb]

The RINOs will pay the political price in due time. The Rats are going to lose the Senate and they know it.

They will merely move to the Dims' side where they are more comfortable. They remind me of those who think they were born with the wrong genitalia, but are not willing to have the offensive danglers cut off.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh gosh, don’t pass it, it’ll cause bad feelings against the United States, and undermine the ability of those “good” governments to stand up to extremists. /s

Thanks tobyhill.

[Texas Fossil]

OK I found another bill, this one sponsored by Rand Paul:

S.3576

Could not find vote details on www.senate.gov but it is here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/s196

It was defeated as described.

It is not unusual for the house & senate to bury the voting details if it is a controversial bill.

[Texas Fossil]

S.3576	Party	Senator	State
Democrat
Nay	D	Whitehouse, Sheldon	RI
Nay	D	Lautenberg, Frank	NJ
Nay	D	Brown, Sherrod	OH
Nay	D	Schumer, Charles	NY
Nay	D	Gillibrand, Kirsten	NY
Nay	D	Kerry, John	MA
No Vote	D	Boxer, Barbara	CA
Nay	D	Menéndez, Robert “Bob”	NJ
Nay	D	Durbin, Richard	IL
Nay	D	Leahy, Patrick	VT
Nay	D	Franken, Al	MN
Nay	D	Mikulski, Barbara	MD
Nay	D	Stabenow, Debbie Ann	MI
Nay	D	Merkley, Jeff	OR
Nay	D	Cardin, Benjamin	MD
No Vote	D	Murray, Patty	WA
Nay	D	Levin, Carl	MI
Nay	D	Blumenthal, Richard	CT
Nay	D	Klobuchar, Amy	MN
Nay	D	Reed, John “Jack”	RI
Nay	D	Cantwell, Maria	WA
Nay	D	Casey, Robert	PA
Nay	D	Harkin, Thomas “Tom”	IA
Nay	D	Wyden, Ron	OR
Nay	D	Inouye, Daniel	HI
Nay	D	Akaka, Daniel	HI
Nay	D	Feinstein, Dianne	CA
Nay	D	Bingaman, Jeff	NM
Nay	D	Udall, Tom	NM
Nay	D	Begich, Mark	AK
Nay	D	Shaheen, Jeanne	NH
Nay	D	Rockefeller, John “Jay”	WV
Nay	D	Johnson, Tim	SD
Nay	D	Coons, Chris	DE
Nay	D	Kohl, Herbert “Herb”	WI
Nay	D	Bennet, Michael	CO
Nay	D	Reid, Harry	NV
Nay	D	Hagan, Kay	NC
Nay	D	Carper, Thomas	DE
Nay	D	Webb, Jim	VA
Nay	D	Udall, Mark	CO
Nay	D	Nelson, Bill	FL
Nay	D	Landrieu, Mary	LA
Nay	D	Warner, Mark	VA
Nay	D	Tester, Jon	MT
Nay	D	Pryor, Mark	AR
Nay	D	Baucus, Max	MT
Nay	D	McCaskill, Claire	MO
Nay	D	Conrad, Kent	ND
Nay	D	Manchin, Joe	WV
Nay	D	Nelson, Ben	NE
Independent
Nay	I	Sanders, Bernard “Bernie”	VT
Nay	I	Lieberman, Joseph	CT
Republican
Nay	R	Snowe, Olympia	ME
Nay	R	Collins, Susan	ME
Nay	R	Brown, Scott	MA
Nay	R	Lugar, Richard	IN
No Vote	R	Kirk, Mark	IL
Nay	R	Murkowski, Lisa	AK
Nay	R	Portman, Robert “Rob”	OH
No Vote	R	Heller, Dean	NV
Nay	R	Cochran, Thad	MS
Yea	R	Grassley, Charles “Chuck”	IA
Nay	R	Alexander, Lamar	TN
Nay	R	Corker, Bob	TN
Nay	R	Hutchison, Kay	TX
Nay	R	Hatch, Orrin	UT
Vote	Party	Representative	State
Yea	R	Moran, Jerry	KS
Yea	R	Shelby, Richard	AL
Yea	R	Toomey, Patrick “Pat”	PA
Nay	R	Blunt, Roy	MO
No Vote	R	Rubio, Marco	FL
Nay	R	Hoeven, John	ND
Nay	R	Graham, Lindsey	SC
Nay	R	Ayotte, Kelly	NH
Nay	R	Coats, Daniel	IN
Nay	R	McConnell, Mitch	KY
Nay	R	McCain, John	AZ
No Vote	R	Boozman, John	AR
Nay	R	Johnson, Ron	WI
Nay	R	Isakson, John “Johnny”	GA
Yea	R	Crapo, Michael	ID
Yea	R	Paul, Rand	KY
Nay	R	Kyl, Jon	AZ
No Vote	R	Burr, Richard	NC
Nay	R	Johanns, Mike	NE
Yea	R	Roberts, Pat	KS
Yea	R	Lee, Mike	UT
Nay	R	Cornyn, John	TX
Nay	R	Sessions, Jefferson “Jeff”	AL
Nay	R	Thune, John	SD
Nay	R	Enzi, Michael	WY
Nay	R	Wicker, Roger	MS
Nay	R	Barrasso, John	WY
Nay	R	Chambliss, Saxby	GA
No Vote	R	Vitter, David	LA
Yea	R	Risch, James	ID
Yea	R	DeMint, Jim	SC
No Vote	R	Inhofe, James “Jim”	OK
Nay	R	Coburn, Thomas	OK

[Texas Fossil]

I have a feeling that Rand Paul sponsoring the bill had an effect on some of the GOP vote. And there were quite a few Not Voting.

[Elendur]

Afridi was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
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Obama is beyond contempt.
...they boast again and again, at their own convention,
about how Osama is dead...
then, they refuse to help the brave doctor,
who made it possible?