Liveblog XVII: Republican Obstructionism All-nighter / Defense Authorization Bill
Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 09:02:58 PM PDT
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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 requsted a simple majority vote on the Levin-Reed Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill.
Reed is "Jack Reed" of Rhode Island, a Democrat; Levin is "Carl Levin" of Michigan, who also happens to be 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.
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