Senate reverses Bush’s budget cuts.

[ProSense]

Senate reverses Bush’s budget cuts.

In a 75-19 vote, the Senate today “reversed President Bush’s cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush’s first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill.”

Roll Call
NAYs ---19
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Martinez (R-FL)
Sessions (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

From AP article:

By a 75-19 vote, the Senate gave bipartisan approval to a huge health and education spending bill that will likely be the first of the fiscal 2008 spending bills Democrats will ship to the White House to start a veto battle involving the budget for almost every domestic agency.

It promises to be a protracted battle, and Bush has a decided advantage, but Democrats have seized on the massive health and education measure as the best measure with which to challenge Bush and his GOP allies in Congress. The measure totals over $600 billion and reverses a raft of cuts sought by Bush to health research, special education and funding for grants to community groups that help the poor, among others.

The confrontation with Bush over domestic programs — many of which are also popular with Republicans, as demonstrated by the margin of passage — will come on the heels of the bruising veto battle over a children's health insurance bill. Programs funded by the health and education bill affect schoolchildren, workers, the poor and disabled, the unemployed and those with special needs or drug and alcohol problems, among others.

[NC_Nurse]

1. Wha? No Dole? Don't tell me Liddy got her compassion on!

Will wonders never cease...of course Burr is there with his "nay". :eyes: Gotta carry Jesse Helm's torch...

[zabet]

2. Burr just gripes my ass!

He so wants to be one of the big
dogs on the hill. :grr:

[NC_Nurse]

5. He's just a puke.

I can't stand him either. Blah.

[fedupfisherman]

3. Will this be overridden?

Will Bush win or Congress?

[TwilightGardener]

4. Wow--we got 20-some Repub Senators with us? That ain't bad.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Not voting: Biden, Clinton, Dodd, McCain, Obama. Jesus H. Christ, holy avoidance.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. McConnell voted for it..something is UP, there. Wonder what pet project

of his was bound into that bill? Hmmm?

[TwilightGardener]

8. My Repub Senator also voted for this--and he voted against SCHIP.

I am shocked, but suspicious at the same time.