The Senate is presently debating the Patriot Act. A cloture vote will occur tomorrow morning, and both sides of the debate claim they have the votes to either kill or sustain a filibuster. Below are the positions of our Senators as of 10:46am CST, 15 DEC 2005:
Opposed:
Cantwell
Craig
Crapo
Dodd
Durbin
Feingold
Feinstein - on Senate floor, 15 DEC
Hagel
Jeffords
Kennedy
Kerry
Leahy
Levin
Murkowski
Obama
Reid
Rockefeller
Salazar
Sununu
Stabenow
Wyden
Votes for extension:
Brownback
Chambliss
Cornyn
Domenici
Frist
Hatch
Hutchison
Kyl
Martinez
Santorum
Sessions
Specter
Talent
Thune
Undecided:
Lincoln
Pryor
No statements:
Akaka
Allard
Allen
Baucus
Bayh
Bennett
Biden
Bingaman
Bond
Boxer
Bunning
Burns
Burr
Byrd
Carper
Chafee
Clinton
Coburn
Cochran
Coleman
Collins
Conrad
Dayton
DeMint
DeWine
Dole
Dorgan
Ensign
Enzi
Graham
Grassley
Gregg
Harkin
Inhofe
Inouye
Isakson
Johnson
Kohl
Landrieu
Lautenberg
Lieberman
Lott
Lugar
McCain
McConnell
Mikulski
Murray
Nelson (FL)
Nelson (NE)
Reed
Roberts
Sarbanes
Schumer
Shelby
Smith
Snowe
Stevens
Thomas
Vitter
Voinovich
Warner