Senate kills attempt to account for Iraq spending

[peterh]

<http://www.boston.com/dailynews/197/wash/Senate_kills_attempt_to_accoun:.shtml>

WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate refused Wednesday to force the Bush administration to specify precisely the cost of continuing military operations in Iraq, defeating a Democratic attempt to use a defense spending bill to criticize its conduct of the war.
The vote was 53-41 to kill a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to force the administration to submit an amendment to the pending $368.6 billion overall defense spending bill stating the costs.
''It's impossible to know what the cost will be of fighting this war in advance,'' said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Dorgan said the administration knows it's spending $4 billion a month in Iraq and it makes little sense to pretend the costs do not exist.


The repugs remind me of the three monkeys: blind, deaf and mute and they feel the public should be in the same mode.

[ender]

1. which dems voted for this resolution?

[MostlyBlackCat2]

2. anyone have a link to the voting record?

for this action? I"d like to know who voted how, and who was absent yesterday. thanks.