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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProtest in progress in Senate...
Protesting Senate Democrats who voted for KXL, sounds like. Mikes being muted.
Protesters were escorted from the chamber.
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Protest in progress in Senate... (Original Post)
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2014
OP
Thanks Cha! Since Mark Pryor lost his senate race, I really expected him to vote no. Go figure.
murray hill farm
Nov 2014
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murray hill farm
(3,650 posts)1. Which Dems for KXL?
I watched it CSpan11, but was listening for my Senators in Arkansas and missed the others.
Cha
(297,154 posts)4. These Dems..
The Democrats who supported the bill were Sens. Mark Begich, Michael Bennet, Tom Carper, Bob Casey, Joe Donnelly, Kay Hagan, Heidi Heitkamp, Mary Landrieu, Joe Manchin, Claire McCaskill, Mark Pryor, Jon Tester, John Walsh and Mark Warner
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-vote-keystone-filibuster
murray hill farm
(3,650 posts)7. Thanks Cha! Since Mark Pryor lost his senate race, I really expected him to vote no. Go figure.
Thanks too for the link.
lamp_shade
(14,827 posts)2. This is what you heard...
Action_Patrol
(845 posts)3. They were arrested.
You can call it escorting if you would like but you are arrested for disrupting Congress.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)5. To change this fucked up system, arrest will be the least of it........
We need about a thousand people a day disrupting Congress for the next two years.
Action_Patrol
(845 posts)6. I hear you.