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Senate votes to require Iraq withdrawals
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| April 26, 2007
| ANNE FLAHERTY
Posted on 04/26/2007 10:26:19 AM PDT by 50mm
WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.
The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines, and like House passage of the same bill a day earlier, fell far short of the two-thirds margin needed to overturn the president's threatened veto. Neverthe less, the legislation is the first binding challenge on the war that Democrats have managed to send to Bush since they reclaimed control of both houses of Congress in January.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska; US: Oregon
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To: edcoil
What republicans voted for it?Can't find the roll call.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:37:55 AM PDT
by
50mm
(algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
To: edcoil
who besides Johnson of SD did not vote?
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:37:59 AM PDT
by
milwguy
To: edcoil
Hagel of Nebraska, and Smith of Oregon.
To: 50mm
TRAITOR!
Harry Reid (D-Al Qaeda)
To: 50mm
Rush: “the Senate is PROUDLY voting for defeat right now...as the House did yesterday...” and “Rudy finally put the Dems on defense where they need to be...and now they are squealing like stuck pigs!”
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:43:11 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: longhorn too
Hagel and Smith have shamed the Republican Party. What will Nebraska and Oregon Republicans do about this?
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:43:21 AM PDT
by
50mm
(algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
To: af_vet_rr
The most unfortunate thing out of all of this, is that Bush had a friendly Congress for severals - years in which he could have increased the size of the military, particularly the Army. He blew that opportunity and now has a Congress that would not only allow the military to expand, but is trying to clamp down on the one we have.In the House, but he had a weakling in the person of Bill Frist as Majority Leader in the Senate, he was awful.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:43:41 AM PDT
by
ReaganRevolution
("Fight the enemy, support the troops, back the President. There can be no end save victory.”)
To: 50mm
51 Traitors in the Senate and 218 Traitors in the House. Never forget this my fellow freepers.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:44:32 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: ItsForTheChildren
I would have preferred a picture that shows the nasty and mean Traitor Reid.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:45:59 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: 50mm
Sen. Hagel (Defeatocrat, Nebraska)
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:47:13 AM PDT
by
50mm
(algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
To: kinoxi
Rather a very mild response.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:47:18 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: 50mm
It ain’t gonna be much of a suprise but do we have a roll call yet?
To: longhorn too
Which Republicans did not vote?
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:47:30 AM PDT
by
John D
To: 50mm
Republicans Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Oregon and Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) of Nebraska sided with 48 Democrats and Independent Bernard Sanders (news, bio, voting record) in supporting the bill. No Democrats joined the 45 Republicans in voting against it. Missing from the vote were GOP Sens. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona and Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record) of South Carolina, both staunch advocates of the president's Iraq policy.
To: 50mm
Same bill as the House? So that means it goes straight to the WH and should be vetoed today before the ink is dry.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:49:22 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: 50mm
I’m furious,I’m sick about this.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:50:30 AM PDT
by
vapor5
To: 50mm
Senator Smith (Defeatocrat, Oregon)
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:51:38 AM PDT
by
50mm
(algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
To: AU72
NO. NO. NO.
Do it next Monday at Fort Bragg with a backdrop of thousands of soldiers. (Red State’s idea, not mine).
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:52:09 AM PDT
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: vapor5
It is getting time for a million of us to carry them out nude. They cannot put all of us in jail.
Ben Franklin noted that a country needs a revolution every 200 years.
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posted on
04/26/2007 10:52:14 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: ItsForTheChildren
At what point can formal charges of treason be brought and who can do it? I think many of us agree that this is an act of treason so what can we do about it???
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