SENATE COVERAGE -- (September / October '04)

http://www.senate.gov/ ^ | 9-7-04 | CONGRESS

[RandallFlagg]

FEINESTINE up talking about the AWB!!!

Ugh! I had a feeling that fineswine would bring it up.
It's still bogged down in the House, right?

[RandallFlagg]

I think the rats are trying something. Byrd's gonna speak soon.

[OXENinFLA]

She basically had to concede that it had no chance of getting extended.

[OXENinFLA]

BYRD Alert!!

[RandallFlagg]

WOO-HOO! COMEDY!!

[RandallFlagg]

Here he goes!

"WHY?!"

[OXENinFLA]

"reshuffling the deck chairs"


Is he talking about camp Kerry?.....}:)

[Mo1]

Just turned it on

[OXENinFLA]

Senate Floor Schedule for Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004.

9:30 a.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.

Thereafter: Resume consideration of H.R. 4567, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005.

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Senate [Democrats] Defies Bush on Homeland Security Jobs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security opening up sensitive immigration jobs to private companies, ignoring a White House threat to veto the bill if it contained the measure.

The Republican-led Senate voted 49-47 to attach the plan to a $32 billion bill to fund homeland security operations in the 2005 fiscal year. In an election-year disappointment for President Bush, several Republicans joined Democrats in support of the measure.

The White House said Bush would veto the bill, introduced by Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, if the amendment stays in the final version.

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Votes:
166: Motion to Waive the Budget Act with respect to the Schumer amendment #3580:
Not Waived, 50-46

167: Thomas amendment #3582:
Agreed to, 49-47

168: Leahy amendment #3584:
Agreed to, 49-47

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[OXENinFLA]

1hr of morning business repubs. up 1st then dems.

[OXENinFLA]

Little TOMMY Daschle up..................Tomorrow he'll introduce a NATIONAL GAURD BILL OF RIGHTS.....

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September 8, 2004 Senate -- Congressional Record

[OXENinFLA]

Lautenberg on now..............Calling bush a FLIP-FLOP.....

[Mo1]

Calling bush a FLIP-FLOP

HAHAHAHAHA ... smell of desperation

[OXENinFLA]

Senate Floor Schedule for Friday, Sept. 10, 2004.

9:30 a.m.: Convene and observe a moment of silence in remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001.

Thereafter: Resume consideration of H.R. 4567, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005.

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I wonder if THE MEMOS will be mentioned today?

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Votes:
169: Motion to Waive the Budget Act with respect to the Byrd amendment #3597:
Not Waived, 43-51

170: Motion to Waive the Budget Act with respect to the Dodd amendment #3604:
Not Waived, 41-53

171: Motion to Waive the Budget Act with respect to the Murray amendment #3596:
Not Waived, 45-49

172: Motion to Table the Boxer amendment #3609:
Tabled, 46-45

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U.S. Senate mourns Russian school siege victims

[OXENinFLA]

Senate Floor Schedule for Monday, Sept. 13, 2004

2:00 p.m.: Convene and begin a period of morning business.

Thereafter: Resume consideration of H.R. 4567, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005.

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From Fri.

Unanimous Consent:
S.Con.Res.127, a concurrent resolution urging the President to designate September 11 as a national day of voluntary service, charity and compassion

H.R.3908, an act to provide for the conveyance of real property located at 1081 West Main Street, Ravenna, OH

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[brothers4thID]

Talk of finishing Homeland approps. tomorrow night and maybe even Leg branch and MilCon.

[OXENinFLA]

Morning business until 3:30 pm, Vote @ 5:30.

[OXENinFLA]

Nelson (D-FL) just mentioned this.

Gunman Shoots Officer Twice With Assault Rifle, Police Say

[OXENinFLA]

Can you say invitation for VOTER FRAUD?

E-mail I got from Camp Kerry today.

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Dear Xxxx,

In this election, we need to make sure every vote counts.

There are seven million voters we need to reach in the next few days and we need your help. September 15 is the deadline in many states for Americans living overseas to register to vote and send in their ballot applications.

If you know any U.S. citizen living overseas, let them know they can get all the information they need and even fill out absentee ballot forms online by visiting:

http://www.overseasvote2004.com

Thank you,

Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager

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Check out the site.

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[OXENinFLA]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bushtext072899.htm

Were you avoiding the draft?

No, I was becoming a pilot.

You wanted to serve?

Yes I did.

But when you were asked do you want to go overseas, you said no.

I didn't know that. But I actually tried to go on a Palace Alert program.

That was later.

It was. After I became a pilot.

Palace Alert program was being phased out.

Not really, a couple of my buddies got to go. ...

... But they'd already graduated.

That's true. I couldn't go until actually I'd gotten my –

I was curious about the sequence. You got out of combat school on June 23, 1970. Palace Alert programs were all closed down overseas as of June 30. So could you have gone even if you signed up for it?

I guess not if that's the case, but I remember going to see [the supervisor] to try to get signed up for it. You just ask the commander to put you in. He said you can't go because you're too low on the totem pole. I'm not trying to make this thing any grander than it is. ...

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