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 simple majority vote on the Levin-Reed Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill.
Reed is "Jack Reed" of Rhode Island a Democrat and Levin is "Carl Levin" of Michigan also as it happens is a Democrat. Worth noting as it is the Republicans who refuse to budge on our troop deployments.
Text of the amendment is here: S. 2766.
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.
This is not political theater. This is democracy folks and had we done this before we went into Iraq we might have avoided this fiasco.
Please DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DIARY to keep the rec list clear for only ONE of these threads ONLY RECOMMEND THE MOTHERSHIP DIARY:
Liveblog Mothership - GOoPer Senate Filibuster on Iraq
Rules:
No Photos or Images
Please try to add content to the best of your ability when you comment so that you are making a record for people who will read the liveblog later.
Also it is very helpful to identify the Senator you are livebloging :)
Volunteers should publish a new diary when current Live Blog reaches 200 comments.
You can watch on C-Span2 and listen in on C-Span Radio. stans alone CSPAN link
p.s. I stole most of the body from inclusiveheart, thank you for that. ;-)
- Liveblog
- Agressive Progressive
- Oreo
- Marcus Tullius
- SallyCat
- Builderman
- Chrispy67
- Andre in Atlanta
- Ellicatt
- Cedwyn The Mothership
- Ninepatch
- aimeeinkc
- inclusiveheart
- pseudopod
- joanneleon
- me
- canoeist
- andyj2287
- robroser
- builderman
- donnas
- Marcus
- Drewid
*If you have volunteered to do a diary, it would be much appreciated if you could drop cedwynN at gmail dot an email right before posting. It'll really help to keep on top of the updates. And if you felt like preserving the transcription section as in the mothership diary, that'd be fantastic. Thanks!