Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War

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Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War


http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/14/reid_to_allow_vote_on_feingold_measure_to_end_iraq_war


Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War
By Greg Sargent | bio

Good news for war foes: Harry Reid just spoke on the Senate floor, revealing that he'll allow a vote this week on the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would cut off funding for the war by March 31, 2008.

This is a big deal for war opponents -- it's the first vote in the Senate on a measure of this kind. "This is a vote that folks have been clamoring for for some time now," enthuses a staffer who works for a Senator favoring the approach.

The staffer added that while the measure faces an uphill struggle, a vote on it will move the parameters of the debate and force Senators into a straight up-or-down vote on the war -- just as last week's House vote on Dem Rep. James McGovern's proposal to end the war did.

The staffer claims that the Senate leadership was going back and forth all weekend on whether to allow this vote. "I think there are probably some people who would prefer not to see a vote on this," the staffer says. "It forces people to take a stand."

More soon.

Update: The "take a stand" comment by my unnamed staffer is understandably drawing some attention. Atrios comments:

[BOSSHOG]

1. "Forces people to take a stand"

Ya mean like cowardly conservative republicans who are sweating out the next elections. force the fuckers to vote. If they vote against it, so be it. Why do conservatives hate being forced to go on record or swearing to tell the truth?

[Monkeyman]

2. Agree

[porphyrian]

3. Good. - n/t

[Ian David]

4. Even Barack Obama has gone all squishy over this lately. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

5. This will be fun!

:D

HA! I can't wait to see the chickehawks run around in circles squawking. :bounce:

[Demeter]

6. Forecast of Flurries in Hell (and I Don't Mean Michigan!)

Is impeachment on the table, too?

[1620rock]

7. ...ha ha, for those who don't know we a town named Hell in Mich.