ANWR VOTED OUT OF DEFENSE BILL 48-45!!!!

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Just got done listening too. What a day. I was ready to give Stevens a pacifier.

and stop stinking up the Senate.

.....at some point, he would think maybe this isn't such a good idea.

I mean, he's been trying to sell this idea for 25 yrs! Now he tries to sneak it into the other bill and it still doesn't pass!!

You gotta wonder about the guy's sanity......maybe this guy isn't so smart if it never occured to him that he should give up on this ridiculous idea.

the doddering ol' fool...probably looking for a bridge to nowhere to jump off of as we speak

Oh, hell, we'll just sign over the Brooklyn Bridge and he can jump from that without waiting.

Each month they put it in there and we narrowly win. We feel good for a little while and then they through ANWR into another bill. It would be a real victory until the discussion about opening ANWR up is ended.

decide to have an up-and-down vote on an ANWR bill not attached to any other legislation.

Sorry I wasn't watching the vote count when it happened.

Democrats - as Molly Ivins would say "Good on you!"

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just got home from work

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Another early Christmas present!

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A victory we can all be proud of!

Alaska's natural treasures belong to all Americans, not just money-grubbing politicians and oilmen.

This has been a fun day to watch C-span.

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I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO relieved to hear this. When did they have the vote? I know I tivo'd hours of this while I was gone to work so I might have it, unless it was within the last hour. It stopped recording then.

Thank you so much for posting this. I was so concerned the whole time I was gone today that they wouldn't do that right thing!

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YEAs ---48
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)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
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)
Lugar (R-IN)
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)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---45
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)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lott (R-MS)
Martinez (R-FL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)


Not Voting - 7
Chafee (R-RI)
Corzine (D-NJ)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dodd (D-CT)
Gregg (R-NH)
Harkin (D-IA)


I wonder why so many didn't vote?