Author: BooMan

Cloture has been invoked in the Senate. Now Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb are introducing an amendment. Carl Levin is co-sponsoring it. Does anyone have the text of this amendment? Use this as a debate thread. It’s on...

Jim Hoagland reports on the growing estrangement between the Bush administration and our most important Middle East allies. Here’s the synopsis. Bush had planned a White House gala for April 17, honoring King Abdullah of...

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I am just going from what I observed on C-SPAN2 and not any official tally, but it appears that Republicans Gordon Smith (OR) and Chuck Hagel (NE) voted against Thad Cochran’s amendment to strip troop withdrawals from the...

Update [2007-3-27 17:26:11 by BooMan]: Chuck Hagel and Gordon Smith voted against Thad Cochran’s amendment stripping benchmarks and timetables from the Iraq War Supplemental bill. That means the amendment failed and it...