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With poll numbers dropping, and the kook base losing patience; White Flag Harry will keep the Senate open all night tonight to try and force a vote on the Dems Surrender At All Costs bill
Reid Forces Senate All-Nighter on Iraq
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senate Democrats, hoping to raise pressure on President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans to pull troops from Iraq, have scheduled an around-the-clock war debate starting on Tuesday.
"I think that the American people deserve what we're doing and that is focusing attention every minute of the day on what is going wrong in Iraq," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Monday in unveiling the rare marathon work day.
Reid said the Senate will stay in session all night Tuesday and into Wednesday to debate war policy and a Democratic plan requiring the pull-out of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.
Democrats have all but publicly acknowledged that they will be unable to pass their end-the-war amendment because opposition Republicans are insisting on 60 votes for a victory.
Reid said that without the Republicans' procedural hurdle, a simple majority of the 100-member Senate would vote for the troop withdrawal, with "a number of Republicans" supporting it.
With recent polls showing growing U.S. public opposition to the war, now in its fifth year, and widespread frustration with Congress' lack of progress in ending it, Democrats have vowed to force votes in coming months on Bush's Iraq policy.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/16/212733.shtml?s=lh
Reid Forces Senate All-Nighter on Iraq
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senate Democrats, hoping to raise pressure on President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans to pull troops from Iraq, have scheduled an around-the-clock war debate starting on Tuesday.
"I think that the American people deserve what we're doing and that is focusing attention every minute of the day on what is going wrong in Iraq," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Monday in unveiling the rare marathon work day.
Reid said the Senate will stay in session all night Tuesday and into Wednesday to debate war policy and a Democratic plan requiring the pull-out of all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.
Democrats have all but publicly acknowledged that they will be unable to pass their end-the-war amendment because opposition Republicans are insisting on 60 votes for a victory.
Reid said that without the Republicans' procedural hurdle, a simple majority of the 100-member Senate would vote for the troop withdrawal, with "a number of Republicans" supporting it.
With recent polls showing growing U.S. public opposition to the war, now in its fifth year, and widespread frustration with Congress' lack of progress in ending it, Democrats have vowed to force votes in coming months on Bush's Iraq policy.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/16/212733.shtml?s=lh
