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6/7/2005

Roll Call On Janice Rogers Brown Cloture

Filed under: General — Dafydd @ 1:51 pm



Over on Power Line, John (nĂ© Hindrocket) wondered how many Democrats, other than the Seven Sirens, voted for cloture on the Janice Rogers Brown nomination. He speculated that, since there are 55 Republicans and a total of 65 senators voted for cloture, that if all Seven Sirens were among those, then “just a handful of additional Democrats voted to uphold the agreement made by their brethren.”

John is, as always, perfectly correct. The cloture vote roll call can be found here. Other than the Seven Sirens — Robert Byrd, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor, Mary Landrieu, Ken Salazar, Joe Lieberman, and Daniel Inouye — only three Democrats voted to end the filibuster: Tom Carper (DE), Bill Nelson (FL), and Kent Conrad (ND).

Two Democrats, Herb Kohl (WI) and Frank Lautenberg (NJ), did not vote, joined by “Independent” Senator Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords.

So exactly as John predicted, only three Democrats not a party to The Deal voted to honor it. If Captain Renault were here, I think we all know what he would say.

2 Responses to “Roll Call On Janice Rogers Brown Cloture”

  1. This is shocking why?

    They’re not a party to the deal, and they’re voting the same way as before the deal.

    It’d be like getting upset that, if Democrats decided to force a vote, the rest of the senate GOP voted to end judicial filibusters.

    Angry Clam (f05866)

  2. I believe both Conrad(ND) and Nelson(FL) are up for re-election next year in “Red States.”

    Loren (f2f4d9)


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