UPDATE YES 56-NO 35 STABENOW SAYS NO-KERRY UP

[kpete]

C-SPAN Stabenow Says NO

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Posted by Pamela Leavey
January 30th, 2006 @ 9:27 am
I’ll be posting updates here through out the day….

– C-Span has a scrolling vote count here - Senate Vote: Samuel Alito Confirmation.

– John Kerry is due on the Senate Floor at approximately 12:30 est. - tune in C-Span2.

– Ted Kennedy gave an awesome floor speech a while ago, the text is available here.

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1799

[reality based]

1. What a great speech by Sen. Stabenow!

A chilling portrait of a judicial nominee far out of the mainstream.

[lyonn]

3. She was really clear and to the point

She followed up on what Kennedy set-out.

Notice the Repubs don't use their time and when they are speaking it is with a mono-tone. What's the deal? Or is it a done deal?

[Czolgosz]

2. We basically need to run the table on the remainig votes:

10 who were quite last I counted on Alito:

Bayh (IN)
Cantwell (WA)
Conrad (ND)
Dorgan (ND)
Landrieu (LA)
Lautenberg (NJ)
Menendez (NJ)
Murray (WA)
Rockefeller (WV)
Snowe (ME)

9 we need a decent representation from to oppose cloture:

Olympia Snowe, Maine
Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut
Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia
E. Benjamin Nelson, Nebraska
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Ken Salazar, Colorado