Straight party vote kills Clinton amendment to form Katrina commission

[paineinthearse]

To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

This pretty much shows senate rethugs have absolutely no conscience, are hearded by their leadership like so many cattle, and have no respect for their constituents.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00229#name

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Motion (Motion To Suspend Paragraph 4, Rule XVI RE: Clinton Amdt. NO. 1660 )

Vote Number: 229 Vote Date: September 14, 2005, 01:06 PM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Motion Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1660 to H.R. 2862 (Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 )

Statement of Purpose: To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Vote Counts: YEAs 44
NAYs 54
Not Voting 2

YEAs ---44
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---54
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Not Voting - 2
Corzine (D-NJ)
Vitter (R-LA)

[mirandapriestly]

1. Gawd damn it, I thought there might be SOME decent Rethugs

What else can be done to get to the bottom of this? Now he'll get away with it like everything else.

[Skink]

2. Bush is in charge now.

Wanted Dead er I mean alive please.

[texpatriot2004]

4. No He's not, unless the American people cave. n/t

[texpatriot2004]

3. GOP Party loyalty is loyal even unto death (not their own death,

but the deaths of innocent others. They refused reason and chose to put party ahead of Country and the American People. The bastards need to go now. They don't get it. They are ruining this country.

<snip>

"Anyone in Congress who thinks this administration is capable of really investigating itself has learned nothing from the past four years. Bush will not acknowledge mistakes because, probably, he doesn't think he makes them. For him, good intentions are everything. But people died in the wake of Katrina because Washington could not get helicopters or trucks to hospitals. Bush says he is willing to take responsibility for that. Maybe so. But it's not responsibility that matters, it's accountability -- a kick instead of a medal. From what we know about Bush, it is history -- not the president -- that will have to deliver that."

<snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402621.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. They can run but they can't hide. Floodgate rolls on.

The American people have been fooled at least once that even the dullest most committed Republican can see, even if they won't publicly admit it. And any thinking person will consider the WMD ruse more foolishness. So the old adage, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" applies, which means Americans are angry and want to get to the bottom of it. The Republicans can't stop Floodgate.

[paineinthearse]

6. Floodgate

Thanks for resurrecting that term, hadn't seen it used in several days!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Floodgate was coined by DU's own Tari.

[Old and In the Way]

7. So much for my moderate Senators from Maine....

Pretty sad. So, the new rules are, we never investigate anything at the federal level because one or the other Party will take a PR hit.

We have to make it a national issue that Republicans must be removed from office because they are putting Party before Country.

[dusty64]

12. So true.

I hope they hammer the hell outta chafee with this one. The myth of the "moderate" rethug needs to be exposed and this bushbot needs to be removed from office.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. And Collins is on the Homeland Security Committee... You'd

think she'd want to know what went wrong. :shrug:

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URGENT yet easy! Hold the government accountable for Katrina's aftermath
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4736062

Save the gulf, then save the nation! http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[ladylibertee]

9. Question

Somebody tell me waht point was Corzine & Vitter trying to make?:shrug:

[Qibing Zero]

10. They knew the vote was going to go down party lines and not pass anyhow?

Maybe, I dunno...

[paineinthearse]

11. AWOL? Sick?

:shrug:

[1932]

13. Corzine was probably working on Gov run in NJ. Vitter, being from La.,

probably new his career would be over if he voted -- either Bush would punish him for voting with Demo's or voters would punish him for voting with Repubs.

[Old and In the Way]

14. Kick and nominated.....this belongs on greatest page.

The Democrats have to start shouting this outrage as a mantra:

Republicans put Party before Country.
Republicans reward incompatence.
Republicans only investigare Democratic Presidents.
Republicans are rubberstamping tools of this administration

The voter has to be reminded of this at every opportunity. Democrats need to push for investigation bills and force Republicans to vote them down on Party lines.

[paineinthearse]

15. Rethugs are pushing HR437

Today, the rethugs are pushing HR437, which, if passed, would form a biased commission that would whitewash, at best.

109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 437

To establish the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.

Debate on CSPAN now.

See details at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2091986&mesg_id=2091986

[mod mom]

16. Another NATIONAL DISGRACE, brought to you by the GOP.