Vote to increase funding for first-responders goes down in flames

[TayTay]

Number: S.Amdt. 1202 to H.R. 2360 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act ) http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00177

Rejected: 36 - 60

The Bill: To fund urgent priorities for our Nation's firefighters, law enforcement personnel, emergency medical personnel, and all Americans by reducing the tax breaks for individuals with annual incomes in excess of $1 million.

36 Democrats voted for it:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
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)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murray (D-WA)
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)


7 Dems voted Against it:
Baucus (D-MT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)

Landrieu (D-LA) AND Mikulski (D-MD) were absent

[TayTay]

1. Also, The Feinstein Amendment went down in flames

This would have shifted money to combat terrorism from low-ris areas to high-risk areas. This was a non-partisan vote that pitted small-states against big states.

Rejected 32 - 60.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00176

As the NYTimes commented today, this is lunacy. There is little to no chance that the terrorists (who want big death counts and massive disruptions to society, after all) will attack Wyoming or New Hampshire.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/opinion/opinionspecial/14thu1.html

Read it and weep.

[whometense]

2. Just sickening.

Between this and the disinformation campaign Rove is waging against Joe Wilson, as Stephanie Miller said this morning, I have a headache in my eye.

How do these people sleep?

[jillan]

3. I have asked myself the same question.

How do they even look at themselves in the mirror?

BUT I believe in Karma. It all comes back to you.
Just look at Rove ;). Whether he gets thrown out on his butt or not, he has lost his crown. People are going to think twice about dealing with him from now on.