BREAKING: House To Schedule Straight Up-Or-Down Vote On Withdrawal Today

[WilliamPitt]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/10/breaking_house_to_schedule_straight_up_or_down_vote_on_withdrawal_today

By Greg Sargent | bio
Here's the latest on the back-room negotiations over the Iraq short-term funding bill House Dems are to vote on today: It looks as if for the first time, the House is also going to hold a straight up-or-down vote on whether to end the war.

Last night, Nancy Pelosi called a bunch of liberal members into a meeting and told them that she didn't have the votes to pass the bill, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

So she told the liberal members that in hopes of getting enough votes for passage, she would also schedule a vote on a bill crafted by Dem Rep. James McGovern, the source said.

More: http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/10/breaking_house_to_schedule_straight_up_or_down_vote_on_withdrawal_today

[G_Leo_Criley]

1. k & r

:kick:

glc

[kpete]

2. quite appropriate that I be #5

[WilliamPitt]

3. Hee.

;)

[w4rma]

4. This vote will help show who the problem people are, but nothing else, apparantly. (nt)

[bigtree]

5. pretty clean bill

still contains provisions that many progressives see as an excuse to continue the occupation like pursuing 'al-Qaeda and training Iraqi forces . . .

I wonder if the bill fails if those members who requested the vote will then go ahead and sign on to the short-term measure she wants? We'll see.

[me b zola]

6. Get everybody on the record!

:kick:

[Marnieworld]

7. Speechless

:wow:

[slipslidingaway]

8. COMMITTEE ACTION: H.RES. 387

http://www.rules.house.gov/SpecialRules_details.aspx?NewsID=2652


"H.R. 2237 - To Provide for the Redeployment of United States Armed Forces and Defense Contractors from Iraq



H.R. 2206 – U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007



H.R. 2207 – Agricultural Disaster Assistance and Western States Emergency Unfinished Business Appropriations Act, 2007"

[slipslidingaway]

9. New Iraq funding bill to be voted on HR 2206

202 pages

http://www.rules.house.gov/110/text/110_hr2206.pdf

[mile18blister]

10. Where are all those "law and order" CONservatives when it really counts?

(rhetorical question).

Edit: To clarify, where are all the Repugs who screamed about the "rule of law" and demanded an "up or down vote" when they were in control?