McCaskill and Feingold just voted for McCain's earmark buster and against the Dem caucus

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And I agree with them. Pork plus recession plus deficits = stupid.


U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th 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 Amendment (McCain Amdt. No. 1366 )
Vote Number: 215 Vote Date: July 6, 2009, 05:31 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1366 to S.Amdt. 1365 to H.R. 2918 (Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010)
Statement of Purpose: To strike the earmark for the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.

Vote Counts: YEAs 31
NAYs 61
Not Voting 7

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---31
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

NAYs ---61
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Gregg (R-NH)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 7
Brownback (R-KS)
Byrd (D-WV)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Murray (D-WA)
Udall (D-NM)
Wicker (R-MS)

http://www.senate.gov/legislat...&vote=00215#position

[stray cat]

1. Good for them. I don't like lemmings who react in mass just because of a party label

I vote for candidates and not just a party

[usregimechange]

2. As do I though I have voted for only one Republican who was a moderate local judge and a good guy

Other than that I have voted party line, though I like to vote for each individually.

[Telly Savalas]

3. This was a $200K earmark on a $3.1 billion bill?

This is the bill we're talking about?

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090626/NEWS01/706269909

And it's not like the project seems like a waste of money. Preserving our history is important. Sen. Nelson may have gone about funding this the wrong way, but it's not fair to put it in the same category as a bridge to nowhere.

If anything, starving a project like this during a recession is stupid. The whole point of the stimulus package was for the government to inject money into the economy via things that benefit the common good. This is certainly in that spirit.

Feingold and McCaskill are among our best Senators but this isn't really something they should be proud of.

[stray cat]

4. I would like to see them take them off the table one by one and set a precedent

should anyone be proud of earmarks in a stimulus package?