Posted on 01/18/2007 5:54:31 PM PST by conservative in nyc
The Senate just voted for the Bennett Amendment to strip the ill-conceived Grassroots Lobbying "Reform" provision of the Ethics Reform Bill, 55-43. The vote was pretty much party-line, with some exceptions (Landreiu, Dorgan and Bayh voted for the amendment, for example).
This provision could have had far-reaching implications by potentially forcing grassroots organizations who asked members of the public to call their Congressmen to register as lobbyists. Some articles said it could even have applied to Internet bloggers.
Unless this ill-conceived provision gets put back in by the Conference Committee, it's dead for now.
Divided by party lines eh? Well if that isn't enough proof for any non-comatose American to realize that Dems are commies and enemies of freedom, nothing will.
Just testing the waters,,,we'll be back..
Thanks for the info!
They make it sound like Republicans voted for the amendment, as they said it was mostly along party lines, as there are more democrats than Republicans.
They is ME - and I certainly didn't intend that.
Reid is so saddened.
THIS WILL BEAR, REQUIRE
ETERNAL VIGILENCE.
The traitorous, treasonous globalists will try every trick in the book to get this on the books one way or another as soon as they can catch enough patriots napping.
Its a sad world when only 6 Democrats could see the danger in this manure ridden bill.
I applaud them and condemn the rest.
YEAs ---55 | ||
Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) |
Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ) |
McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Roberts (R-KS) Salazar (D-CO) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Thomas (R-WY) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) |
NAYs ---43 | ||
Akaka (D-HI) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Clinton (D-NY) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) |
Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) |
Nelson (D-FL) Obama (D-IL) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
Not Voting - 2 | ||
Brownback (R-KS) |
Johnson (D-SD) |
I'm willing to bet that no one in the MSM will call the original grassroots lobbying provision "ill-conceived". Twice.
This is good news, without conservative talk we likely would never have heard about this to begin with and would have passed.
This is good news! But, we need explanations for the Dems who voted the "right" way. I saw that the ACLU actually agreed with Dr. Dobson in opposing this attempted unconstitutional and dastardly squelching of grassroots (us) "lobbying". Is that why the "right" votes from some Dems?
All the Democrat Senators who voted for the amendment are from red states. That pretty much explains it to me.
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