Update [2005-5-26 18:55:43 by catnip]: In a nail-biter of a vote on cloture, the "No" votes have it! Frist, I mean Dobson, voted "No" as well(!)
The final count was: yays - 56; nays - 42
Join us here as we discuss the Senate vote on cloture.
You can check the results of the roll call vote once they are posted online here.
Dodd(D) and Biden led the push for a possible filibuster if information about the NSA intercepts from the administration was not forthcoming. (See Day 1 - Part 5 diary linked below for more background).
Here's an AP article about the controversy. (Thanks for the link, Earl.)
"We should delay this until we see that information; it's a matter of right and wrong," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., maintained at the start of a second day of Senate debate over John R. Bolton's fitness and qualifications. "It is right for us to get that information, it is wrong for the administration to withhold it."
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