Budget voted 51 - 49 - Landrieu voted for it.

The Roll Call is not posted yet. However, if there is another Dem that voted for it, it means we could have beaten it.

I guess a 50/50 vote would be settled by Cheney.

I mean- how much money was in there for LA clean up and reestablishment. I understand the urge to stand with ones party, but, this really IS a vote for the citizens of the state that she represents.

Ok, flame away.
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No idea what happened to the one you are talking about. God only knows.

Neo Fascist one in power now?

can be filibustered (or is it appropriation, I dont remember).

Thanks for the info.

They refused to put it in the budget bill.

Budget at the end of the year.

I dont remember what happened in between.

If so, then she would have a very good reason to vote for it. Imagine facing the backlash at home... 'so finally bush is going to get some money down here and our senator stopped it...'

Her people can't afford to stall this idiotic budget.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601765.html

The budget passed with Vice President Dick Cheney, who also serves as president of the Senate, sitting in the Senate chamber ready to cast a tie-breaking vote if needed.

The House of Representatives has not yet written its version of a fiscal 2007 budget.

The Republican budget, which won the support of only one Senate Democrat, projects a $359 billion deficit in the fiscal year beginning October 1, down slightly from the $371 billion estimated for this year.

The budget also calls for the opening of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, generating an estimated $6 billion in leasing fees and bonus bids paid by energy companies to drill in the refuge. Pro-development lawmakers have been pushing the initiative for years and it was unclear whether environmentalists will be able to block the plan this year.

With Cheney in chamber, even if she had voted NO, it would not have changed anything.

and Inouye

Nice to confirm that he is a phony.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00074

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00074

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---51
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)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
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)
Landrieu (D-LA)
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)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---49
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)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
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)
Menendez (D-NJ)
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)