[Sosfbay-discuss] Iraq Vote: What Happened

[JamBoi]

House YEAS    218 
Eshoo, Lantos, Honda, Lofgren, Matsui, Woolsey,
Conyers, Rangel, Wexler, Murtha, voted AYE.

Senate: 
Feinstein, Biden voted AYE.

House NAYS    201 
McNerney, Ron Paul, Kucinich, (Sensenbrenner &
Hastert!) voted NAY.

Senate:
Boxer, Kerry, Clinton, Obama voted NAY.

At least in the house, if our own CA contingent
(including our own representatives) had voted against
this thing it wouldn't have passed!

The Senate wasn't close.  80-14 with 38 Democrats (the
majority of the party) voting yes.  But any single
senator could have filibustered and none chose to.

Impeach for Peace!

Drew


--- Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Understanding what the Ds did on the vote is
> apparently not simple.  Something about the vote is
in the rule.
> I haven't time to figure it out now.  But apparently
> the answer might be in here:
> 
>     
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/25/1447/
> 
> and here:
> 
>      http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll418.xml
> 
> Note: McNerney voted with Kucinich.
> 
> Gerry

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