Posted on 07/21/2007 7:57:46 AM PDT by txradioguy
If Majority Leader Harry Reid can’t start pulling troops out of Iraq, he doesn’t want to start paying them any more either.
After an amendment to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq within 120 days failed to receive the 60 votes needed to proceed, Reid set the entire defense authorization bill aside. By doing so, he shelved a 3.5 percent pay raise for all uniformed service personnel, $4 billion in equipment upgrades and a new program to treat traumatic brain injuries.
To increase pressure on Republicans to support the measure, sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) and Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.), Reid threw the Senate into an all night session on Tuesday evening that lasted through Wednesday morning. Levin-Reid fell eight votes short, 52-47.
“There are two things that I want to accomplish,” Reid told reporters immediately after the amendment vote. “One is to pass a defense authorization bill, but with a deadline dealing with Iraq. Once we put that together, we'll move forward on it.”
We have been fortunate that Tarrant County (Ft. Worth) carries the GOP over any creep Dallas put ups.
I shudder to think what would happen if that turned the other way.
We had Jim Wright the arrogant, snobbish crook who was Speaker of the House for the Democrats for a long time. If you remember the House post office and the Bank scam.
I feel Cronyn has great potential - either as a future judge or just in the Senate.
But Austin and Dallas are problems for the GOP here.
Yes, I did, I wrote it.
Haha, mispoke. I meant to ask about http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869516/posts?page=139#139
Specificaly the part in reference to “(S.3622)”
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