Assault Weapon Ban extension PASSES (Senate amendment to gun industry protection bill)

C-Span ^ | 3-2-04 | Sen. Dianne Feinstein D-CA

[Atlas Sneezed]

The vote was:

52 -Aye in favor of extending the ban 47 -Nay opposed to the ban.

[ought-six]

"You oughtta know better than that about Fitzgerald. He takes some odd positions, but he's a hard right conservative with an independent streak. I guess you could consider following ones principles rather than party 'in name only', but he's both a social and fiscal conservative."

But he's a social liberal. Big time.

[Lazamataz]

I fully expect this to come out of the conference with the AWB intact and it will land on Dubya's desk and he will sign it as he's promised to do.

Of course it will. It's anti-freedom, isn't it?

[oldfart]

Question: On the Amendment (Feinstein Amdt. No. 2637 ) Vote Number: 24Vote Date: March 2, 2004, 11:38 AMRequired For Majority: 1/2Vote Result: Amendment Agreed toAmendment Number: S.Amdt. 2637 to S. 1805 (Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act ) Statement of Purpose: To provide for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban.
Vote Counts:YEAs52NAYs47Not Voting1
Vote SummaryBy Senator NameBy Vote PositionBy Home State
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Allen (R-VA), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Biden (D-DE), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Breaux (D-LA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burns (R-MT), Nay
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Campbell (R-CO), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Clinton (D-NY), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Coleman (R-MN), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Corzine (D-NJ), Yea
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Daschle (D-SD), Yea
Dayton (D-MN), Yea
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Yea

[miloklancy]

Does anyone have the breakdown of which Senators voted in favor and against?

[TheBigB]

We will see.

[AntiGuv]

See post #88 on the AWB Extension vote and see post #184 on the Gun Show Loophole vote.

[oyez]

Reps in their districts will be hearing from gunowners and those votes can sway elections.

Not, If you happen to live in Harold Ford Jr's district. No, one dares run against him. And the RINO's in the district will not support anyone else but Ford.

[El Gato]

The BushBashers need to get a clue. George W. Bush gave the signal to Tom DeLay that he was to make sure, beyond any reasonable doubt that the AWB dies in the House. That's what Bush meant when he said he wanted a clean bill. No riders.

That's not what he said, he said he wanted the Senate to pass a clean bill *so as not to delay passage* of the liability protection bill. Not quite the same thing.

[JohnnyZ]

There is no way W wins any of the NE states nor he will win in OR/WA/CA,MI,WI .

KQQL . . . back the prediction pram up there, daddy-o! Sure you don't want to take any of that back? MI, OR, WI, NH?

[Lazamataz]

Be prepared to get LazamaBUSTED again for talking through your hat.

Cute. But this is freedom we are talking about, so let's not bother with the bulls**t ad hominum crap, shall we?

[Redleg Duke]

Yep! Then we will have four years of listening to you bitch about how rotten Kerry is...and you will have contributed to electing him.

[JohnnyZ]

But he's a social liberal. Big time.

Not on life issues.

[rintense]

You can't, because people don't care about CFR, and you know that truth, but yet you wish to ignore reality and criticize people who acknowledge that reality and put yourself on an empty throne called "the most principled of all".

People don't care? Then why not equate speech with the second amendment? Many here are pissed as hell at having their right to bear arms limited. Why should speech be any different?

If people don't care, then this country as a whole is done. Maybe people WILL care when they realize that during this election, the media will have the greatest influence over the masses in history. And we all know where their bais is. So, if the media can question and bash a candidate's record- UNCHALLENGED- up til and on the day of the election, why can't we as CITIZENS do the same?

I'll tell you why: CFR.

Now, tell me people don't care. By the time people DO realize what CFR really means, they will be powerless to speak out against it.

You can take my guns, but still I'll fight. But when you take my voice, you've silenced me forever.

[KQQL]

Feingold (D-WI)Nay
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Oh WOW>.....what can I say....good for him

[Constitution Day]

I'm more than a little surprised that E. Dole didn't vote for it.

[Henrietta]

"What now? Conference? When does the president get to lose another 1 or 2% of his base (by signing this)? Soon?"

Hey, don't worry, Seth...I'm repeatedly told by the "support Bush at any cost to our liberties" folks on this forum that we who will withhold support for Bush if he signs this bill are so insignificant to the conservative cause that it won't matter who we vote for, or whether we vote at all. So I guess we can all breathe a sigh of relief that when I and others write in Ron Paul or Tom Tancredo if Bush signs this horrible bill, it won't cost Bush the election.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Any attempt by the Republican Party apologists to minimize or explain away such betrayal will, along with their previous two decades of excuses, be revealed as of no more value than the gibbering of baboons. So that's why it's a make or break issue for me. I don't vote to reelect traitors and back-stabbers.

Bump that.

[Lazamataz]

Now the AWB ban is different.

I suspect, when it is signed, you'll be mouthin' off about how we need to support Bush anyways.

It's what you do.

[Cold Heat]

LOL!

Exercising your teeth today!

I usually stay off these gun threads, because frankly, you folks are so emotional over the related political process that is is scary.

These principled stands over bits and pieces of the proverbial pie are going to cause the eventual and problematic loss of the entire pie.

While you battle over the scrap's, the rats will take the entire carcass.

You are not a Sabertooth, you are the hyena.

[El Gato]

So 90% of Republicans vote the right way and you're through with the GOP?

10 RINOS is nearly 20% of Republicans in the Senate.