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Marriage Amendment DOA in Senate
The proposed amendment to define marriage in the Constitution failed in the Senate today (hardly surprising to anyone). It needed sixty votes to achieve cloture, and only got 49. Forty-eight senators voted in opposition. I’ll update this with a link to the roll call when it’s available.
Now, Senate, get back to work on some important issues.
Update: The roll call is here. Democrats Byrd and Nelson (NE) voted in favor of cloture; Republicans Chafee, Collins, Gregg, McCain, Snowe, Specter, and Sununu voted against. Senators Dodd, Hagel and Rockefeller did not vote.
3 Responses to “Marriage Amendment DOA in Senate”
Yes, but what about the vote to rename french toast?
The roll call is up on the Senate website. It’s a long link, so I tinyurl’d it.
http://tinyurl.com/oe9uh
Democrat yeas: Byrd, Nelson
Republican nays: Chafee, Collins, Gregg, McCain, Snow, Specter, Sununu
Not voting: Dodd, Hagel, Rockefeller
The independent voted nay.
Any thoughts on what McCain is doing? Does he still want to be president? It seems that an effective way to not get elected would be to cozy up to the evangelical movement for a few months, and then on a highly publicized issue vote the exact opposite of what they want. Now, neither side is going to trust him.
Thanks Tim, I updated as well.
McCain’s opposed this amendment from the get-go, his position (like Cheney’s, for example) is the conservative stance that this should be left up to the states (he is, for example, supporting a ban on gay marriage in AZ).