[RightWingAtheist]

The people in the Physics Forum list have it backwards. A "Yea" vote was against the Bumpers amendment to kill the SSC, and the Republicans (led by Phil Gramm, the SSC's biggest cheerleader) were overwhelmingly for it. The few Repubs who did vote against Nay it were RINOs like Jeffords. The Dems who voted yea-Feinstein, Leiberman, Bennett Johnston-are well known for their strong support of pro-science policy, regardless of who sponsors it. Such supposedly "pro-science" Dems as Kerry, Kennedy and Wellstone voted against tabling the Bumpers amendment for no good reason other than blind partisanship, although Mark Warner probably voted Nay so that the Jefferson lab, which was his own baby, would get more funding.

[risk]

The people in the Physics Forum list have it backwards.

They understood that just fine. Yea meant kill the collider. That's what's bothering them. I see a lot of Republicans voting Yea.