May 22 2008
GI Bill Passes Senate 75-22
Senate Voting on Webb Bill – Daily Kos
Senator Jim Webb’s GI bill has now passed both the House and Senate. The Senate victory is a veto-proof majority if all those that voted still stick with it. The House vote, sadly, is not. It would be nice to believe that Bush wouldn’t veto something like this…but it seems like he probably will, likely claiming that it’s full of “pork.”
John McCain was not in the Senate today and has been opposed to this bill. All those that voted against the bill were Republicans. In addition to McCain, Tom Coburn and Ted Kennedy (understandably) were absent. A big “huzzah” to all the Republican senators that crossed the aisle to support our military on this bill. And a big “boo” to all these folks that did not:
| Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Cochran (R-MS) |
Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) |
Hatch (R-UT) Kyl (R-AZ) Lugar (R-IN) McConnell (R-KY) Sessions (R-AL) Voinovich (R-OH) |
