Did Kerry vote on the Medicare bill?

[mot78]

After reading a poster's question about that, I'm getting nervous.

[David Dunham]

1. Don't know. But many Dems voted for it after AARP endorsed it.

They felt they would be committing political suicide if they did not.

[Cocoa]

2. all candidates suspended their campaigning

to go back for that vote. Even Lieberman.

[cal04]

3. Medicare Vote

Kerry, Lieberman skip vote

The Senate voted 54 to 44 in favor of the Medicare bill on Tuesday.
The Democratic opponents of the bill were joined by nine Republicans who objected to the bill as an expensive entitlement program.

Two key Democrats did not vote. Presidential candidates John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, participated in Monday's debate but skipped Tuesday's vote.

Lieberman's press secretary, Jano Cabrera, said the senator left for a campaign stop in Arizona -- where Bush is to appear at a fund-raiser Tuesday afternoon for Rep. Rick Renzi's re-election campaign -- after it became "ultimately clear the bill was heading toward passage."

Cabrera said Lieberman would "continue to speak out against the president's Medicare policies."

In a written statement, Kerry said he fought "tooth and nail against this special interest giveaway" but returned to the campaign trail once he decided that his vote would not make a difference.

Prior to the vote, senators on both sides of the issue made impassioned pleas for their side. But two last-minute efforts by Democratic senators failed to block the vote, and the bill won out.

The House passed the bill in a controversial vote early Saturday after late-night phone calls from the president, a move credited with helping get the bill passed there. A three-hour vote was ended by GOP leaders at 6 a.m., after a 218 to 216 deficit flipped to a 220 to 215 victory.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/elec04.medicare/

[mot78]

4. We've got preempt a potential Repuke talking point

If they wanted to, they could put this shit on the air tomorrow. Most of the us knew about Dean's records "scandel" long before the whores played it up.

Can someone warn D-Bunker and get them to preempt this?