Here's How Your Senators Voted on Udall Amendment to Strip Out War and Imprisonment Power Grabs

[babsbunny]

http://warisacrime.org/content/heres-how-your-senators-voted-udall-amendment-strip-out-war-and-imprisonment-power-grabs

By davidswanson - Posted on 29 November 2011

YEAs ---37 (Thank them.)
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Coons (D-DE)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL) Paul (R-KY)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

[Kaleko]

1. Already being discussed on DU

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2399243

:hi:

[hifiguy]

2. Well, my two senators did their bit to prevent martial law

Thank you Sens. Franken and Klobuchar. :applause:

But apparently it's coming anyway. :(

[Scuba]

3. Even my Democratic Senator, Herb Kohl, let us down. Time to replace Herb with a ...

...real Democrat.

[SouthernLiberal]

4. No surprises there for me

Of course, both of South Carolina's senators voted to keep these repulsive provisions in the defense spending bill, even though they have nothing to do with defense spending.

But what did I expect? Our senior senator, Lindsey Graham is a co-sponsor of the pro-torture amendment!