Scroll for updates…7:09pm Eastern…motion to invoke cloture passes 62-35…and…omni-pork sails through the Senate on voice vote…$410 billion soon to siphoned away from taxpayers to bolster congressional re-election prospects…they should have said “Oink” instead of “aye…”
Just watched Jeff Session’s E-Verify amendment to ensure that omni-pork spending only goes to legal citizens get tabled.
Vote was 50-47. Here’s the 唱名投票。
Senators now voting on Ensign amendment to save the DC public school choice program, which I noted earlier this morning 此处.
美国东部时间晚上6:00更新: Lieberman voted for school choice. Specter voted against.
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Another GOP no on school choice: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
School choice amendment goes down, 39-58.
美国东部时间晚上6:09更新. Dingy Harry Reid now on the floor trying to stave off Vitter’s attempt to repeal automatic pay raises.
Meantime, news that Obama’s Democrat support for omni-pork is 摇摇欲坠. Hope lives:
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said Tuesday that President Obama’s budget plan doesn’t have enough support from lawmakers right now to win approval.
Conrad said that he has spoken to enough colleagues with reservations about several different provisions in the budget that he thinks Congress won’t pass it, at least in its present form.
Conrad urged White House budget director Peter Orszag not to “draw lines in the sand” with lawmakers, most notably on Obama’s plan for a cap-and-trade system to curb carbon emissions.
“Anybody who thinks it will be easy to get the votes on the budget in the conditions that we face is smoking something,” Conrad said Tuesday during a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee.
6:38pm Eastern. Reid successfully beats back automatic pay raise repeal amendment. Whines about how “difficult” the process has been.
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7:02pm Eastern. Meet the Republicans against school choice…Crapo, Specter, Snowe, Murkowski. 这是唱名投票 on the Ensign amendment:
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs —39
亚历山大(R-TN)
巴拉索 (R-WY)
贝内特(R-UT)
邦德(R-MO)
布朗巴克 (R-KS)
邦宁 (R-KY)
毛刺 (R-NC)
伯德 (D-WV)
钱布利斯 (R-GA)
科本 (R-OK)
科克伦 (R-MS)
柯林斯(R-ME)
科克(R-TN)
科宁 (R-TX)
脱敏剂 (R-SC)
少尉 (R-NV)
恩齐 (R-WY)
格雷厄姆(R-SC)
格拉斯利(R-IA)
格雷格(R-NH)
舱口盖(R-UT)
和记黄埔 (R-TX)
因霍夫 (R-OK)
伊萨克森(R-GA)
凯尔(R-AZ)
利伯曼 (ID-CT)
卢格(R-IN)
马丁内斯 (R-FL)
麦凯恩(R-AZ)
麦康奈尔 (R-KY)
里施 (R-ID)
罗伯茨 (R-KS)
会话数(R-AL)
谢尔比 (R-AL)
图恩 (R-SD)
维特 (R-LA)
Voinovich(R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
柳条 (R-MS)
NAYs —58
阿卡卡 (D-HI)
鲍卡斯 (D-MT)
拜赫 (D-IN)
贝吉奇 (D-AK)
班内特 (D-CO)
宾加曼 (D-NM)
拳击手 (D-CA)
棕色 (D-OH)
伯里斯 (D-IL)
坎特韦尔 (D-WA)
卡丹 (D-MD)
卡珀 (D-DE)
凯西 (D-PA)
康拉德 (D-ND)
克拉波 (R-ID)
多德 (D-CT)
多根 (D-ND)
德宾 (D-IL)
费因戈尔德 (D-WI)
范斯坦 (D-CA)
吉利布兰德 (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
哈金 (D-IA)
井上 (D-HI)
约翰逊 (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
凯里 (D-MA)
克洛布查 (D-MN)
科尔 (D-WI)
兰德里厄 (D-LA)
劳腾堡 (D-NJ)
莱希 (D-VT)
莱文 (D-MI)
林肯 (D-AR)
麦卡斯基尔 (D-MO)
梅嫩德斯 (D-新泽西州)
Merkley (D-OR)
米库尔斯基 (D-MD)
默科夫斯基(R-AK)
默里 (D-WA)
纳尔逊 (D-FL)
纳尔逊 (D-NE)
普赖尔 (D-AR)
里德 (D-RI)
里德 (D-NV)
洛克菲勒 (D-WV)
桑德斯 (I-VT)
舒默 (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
斯诺(R-ME)
幽灵(R-PA)
斯塔贝诺 (D-MI)
测试员 (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
韦伯 (D-VA)
怀特豪斯 (D-RI)
怀登 (D-OR)
不投票 – 2
约翰斯 (R-NE)
肯尼迪 (D-MA)