OFFICIAL SENATE LINK OF THE ROVE AMENDMENT VOTE

[LSK]

Question: On the Amendment (Reid Amdt. No. 1222 )
Vote Number: 188 Vote Date: July 14, 2005, 06:53 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1222 to H.R. 2360 (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act )
Statement of Purpose: To prohibit Federal employees who disclose classified information to persons not authorized to receive such information from holding a security clearance.
Vote Counts: YEAs 44
NAYs 53
Not Voting 3

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/r...

Go out and beat the repukes repeatedly with this vote.

Its proof they put party over country.

Thank you Harry Reid for this brilliant amendment.

[swag]

1. Oh, Gordon "Haircut" Smith is going to get a little note from me.

Readers of Oregon Newspapers might like to know about this little misstep of his too.

[Career Prole]

2. Recommended! Who cares about national security?

Dems do!

[electropop]

28. I listened to some of the debate.

The pukes sounded frightened, irrational, and desperate. Lord knows what our Dear Leader would have done to them if they had revoked the security clearance of Bush's Brain.

This was an excellent vote and will be very helpful in sweeping the garbage out of the Senate in '06. Thanks Pukes!

All our candidates need to do is say, "Senator so-and-so voted to let traitors keep their security clearances, so they can continue to betray our brave agents to our enemies. Senator so-and-so must be on the Al Qaeda payroll."

[Straight Shooter]

3. Party over country. Soft on treason. No spine. eom

[bunny planet]

31. That's the line we send to every Republican Senator after their nay votes

on this.

You chose your party over your country and as a result Republicans are soft on treason.

Short, and to the point.

They will regret their nay votes.

Lots of LTTE to write tomorrow too.

[Synnical]

4. Thanks for this

Edit to add bold of text

What is the text of the amendment, anyone have a link?

From the link provided:

Statement of Purpose: To prohibit Federal employees who disclose classified information to persons not authorized to receive such information from holding a security clearance.

NAYs ---53
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)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
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)
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)

[merbex]

5. To prohibit Federal employees who disclose classified information to perso

persons not authorized to receive such information from holding a security clearance.

So I guess these Repgugs are in favor of disclosing classified information

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE

Anyone running against one of these traitors should hammer this RELENTLESSLY

Friends and confidants of the President are above the law HUH? Only in Republican world

[chemp]

33. Chafee (R-RI)

just one more reason to be rid of him.
Credit card debt bill
Judicial Appointments
now this.

No big fan of Sheldon Whitehouse, but he'll do.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

6. Well, here's what I wrote to Lamar Alexander.

So Senator Alexander,

You voted against the Reid Amendment No. 1222.
I should have figured you and your party would
support treason.

You are a shameful coward.

I look forward to working for your opponent in the
next election.

[Jo March]

22. BRAVO!! It's short and to the point

Nice work!

[Tippy]

23. Here is mine

Senator Alexander,

Your vote against the Reid Amendment #1222 came as no real suprise to me, but it did sadden me.

It is a shame the Good People of TN alowed you to become a member of the Senate, you and everyone who voted against this amendment support TREASON....What a sad day for our State and our Country.

[Counciltucky]

26. Mind if I send the same thing to Grassley?

That's beautiful, and I couldn't have said it any better.

[Call me Deacon Blues]

29. Be my guest

We need to be blunt, to the point, but within the boundaries of propriety.

[Child_Of_Isis]

7. This is the end of the Republican party.

They can't run on "terrorism" anymore. If they don't have fear, they don't have anything. Oh wait...they still have hate.

[bigwillq]

8. Thanks for this link.

This vote will have huge implications. We need to spread the word.

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Attention

All CIA this guys not voting to safeguards your life hey.
They all fair games right.

[RoyGBiv]

10. Holy freakin' tomatoes...

What kind of asinine bullshit is this? What possible answer could anyone have to voting "no" on this? Seriously. I was stuck in work hell all day and didn't have time to check news or CSPAN. Was a debate held? What was said against this amendment, if anything?

I've seen some really good spin from the Repubs lately, but this is going to take a genius even Peggy Noonan didn't have.

[LSK]

12. some other threads of folks watching this on CSPAN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[RoyGBiv]

13. Thanks ...

Most appreciated.

[Tommymac]

16. The debate was great...hope it is on CSpan archives...

or maybe someone here has it on tape and can link it...

It was riveting...one of the best debates I've seen in a while

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. What is their excuse? What will Snowe and Collins have to say about this?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. Disgusted to be from PA yet again...

Dammit Arlen. Ricky you I have no hope for, but HOLY SHIT Arlen this is the last straw. If anyone on DU catches me defending Specter again, smack me back to my senses. Hard. Use a waffle iron.

There ain't a smiley for this kind of revulsion, shame on you Arlen, shame on you.

Fuck I wanna break something.

[Mandate My Ass]

37. Thanks for saying it for me

Santorum is utterly shameless but I had hope for Specter. Methinks I shall drop him a note saying WTF were you thinking???

Oh, and I have a waffle iron and I'm not afraid to use it!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

38. Swing away!!

Just don't heat it beforehand

Howdy from Montco!!

[wakeme2008]

15. I just wrote a LTTE over Mel in Fl

But in Mel's case he LOVES to blame staff memebers but not this time.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

17. Pubbies play their hand..........

the vote on this amendment shows that partisan politics is valued higher than national security. This is disgusting.

Wake the fuck up, America!

[kainah]

18. the repugs introduced a second degree amendment

to Reid's amendment which was primarily intended to silence Durbin (for his comments abt torturing prisoners) and intimidate the other Senators. Anyone know how this came out?

This was a very feisty and interesting -- and, according to Diane Feinstein, historic -- debate but can't find a DU thread covering it. Can anyone help? I had to leave towards the end and was counting on a DU thread to bring me up to date when I got back.

edited -- stupid me! I found the links above. Too frantic to know, didn't read all posts. Bad, bad, bad kainah!

[LSK]

19. the other vote was defeated soundly 63-34 i think

Which was the Frist Silence Durbin Amendment.

[kainah]

20. thanks, LSK

I just read the other threads. I knew DU wouldn't let me down.

Just so that I might feel as though I contributed something of value here, the three non-voting senators were DeMint, Lott & Mikulski. Mikulski is in the hospital (searching for reason why she's been tired lately) and I don't know anything abt Lott but I saw DeMint earlier today so wonder what his excuse for not voting is.

[Jo March]

21. Burr and Dole voted "Nay" - big shock

Dole wants to be * so bad that I'm waiting for her to schedule the sex-change operation. I guess she can use Burr's balls since he doesn't use them.

[Counciltucky]

25. SHEESH!

Even RINOs like Chafee and Hagel, not to mention "Maverick" McCain, voted no.

It seems to be a fair amendment -- if you can't keep a secret, ya shouldn't be allowed to receive secrets. Obviously this was put in to smack Rove, but it still serves a good purpose.

[NewJeffCT]

24. even Lieberman voted yes

a vote that makes me proud of my home state senator.

[zinndependence]

27. thanks for posting this even though...

the results make me sick!

[slutticus]

30. No...the results are bloody brilliant.

It's a win.

If it had passed, then all those GOP fucks who voted for it could distance themselves from the crime.....they can just say..."well I voted for the amendment...."

Rove (and/or anyone else involved in the leak) is gonna get it regardless of this amendment.

Now that it hasn't passed, every singe moran who voted against this is going to have a hell of a lot of explaining to do.

On Edit: spelling error... corrected moron to moran

[LSK]

32. kick!

People really need to see this and use it against freepers as proof that Repukes favor party politics over national security.

[crispini]

34. Here's mine, to my senators.

Party over Country?

Dear Senator,
Re: Reid Amendment No. 1222, which was to prohibit Federal employees who disclose classified information to persons not authorized to receive such information from holding a security clearance.

Sounds like a good amendment if you ask me! Federal employees who cannot protect our country's secrets should not have a security clearance! Your NAY vote on this amendment clearly indicates your willingness to place party over country in order to protect Karl Rove.

Congratulations. You stand revealed as just another partisan politician instead of a patriotic public servant.

[Jo March]

36. Nice!

I love stuff like that - short and to the point.

[ObaMania]

35. So what's this saying?

That all Re- 's endorse treasonous acts at the Federal level?