Reply #30: And Obama did NOT vote against the IWR, as he's led many to think.

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He wasn't in the Senate then to vote on it. Considering that 99 our of 100 Senators were convinced that it was right to send inspectors in to look for WMD and voted for IWR, I think Obama would have voted for it, too, if he had been in the Senate then.

Only Senator Graham of Florida voted against the IWR, along with a small group of members of the House, including Dennis Kucinich and probably all or most of the Black Congressional Caucus.

Which brings up a question: why is Obama not a member of the BCC? Would the BCC not invite a black Senator to join the group? I know Sen. Paul Wellstone was a member of the Progressive Congressional Caucus, thought that any caucus could include members from both houses of Congress. I looked up the membership of the BCC the other day and Obama does not belong.