The Senate is debating the Levin-Reed Amendment to the defense appropriations bill which requires redeployment of troops out of Iraq within 120 days of enactment.
Harry Reid has requested a standard simple majority vote on the Levin-Reed Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill. Unfortunately, Senate Republicans have developed a pathological fear of cloture.
The text of the amendment is here: S. 2766. (PDF)
The Republicans are filibustering and Harry Reid says that they have to actually debate in this filibuster rather than simply voting on cloture to quash the effort to get an up or down simple majority vote.
So thirty hours of debate is the order of the day, night and day again. So far, no senator has been forcibly dragged into the chamber. I'm as disappointed as you are.
A break is scheduled for 9am EST and the cloture vote is scheduled for 11am EST.
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