1. The bill was written the way it was to fit the Supreme Court's torturous Nebraska ruling that forced lawmakers to write the law in a very defined way to avoid it getting declared unconstitutional. My understanding is that it took the pro-life groups months just to find the right language to make sure the PBA Ban wouldn't be declared unconstitutional.
2. The foolish Roe affirmation was an amendment attached by liberals in the Senate. If this guy wants to find out who affirms Roe and who doesn't, he ought to try looking at the vote on the amendment itself.
Once the amendment had been attached, it would have been the height of folly to kill the entire bill because of one amendment that has no legal teeth at all.
This man is uninformed.
I watch the Senate a lot. It seems to me they vote on each amendment.
Do you happen to know how we can check on who voted for it?
Thanks. :)
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Question: On the Amendment (Harkin Amdt. No. 260 ) | |||
Vote Number: | 48 | Vote Date: | March 12, 2003, 04:03 PM |
Required For Majority: | 1/2 | Vote Result: | Amendment Agreed to |
Amendment Number: | S.Amdt. 260 to S. 3 (Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 ) | ||
Statement of Purpose: | To express the sense of the Senate concerning the decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. |
Vote Counts: | YEAs | 52 |
NAYs | 46 | |
Not Voting | 2 |
Alabama: | Sessions (R-AL), Nay | Shelby (R-AL), Nay |
Alaska: | Murkowski (R-AK), Yea | Stevens (R-AK), Yea |
Arizona: | Kyl (R-AZ), Nay | McCain (R-AZ), Nay |
Arkansas: | Lincoln (D-AR), Yea | Pryor (D-AR), Nay |
California: | Boxer (D-CA), Yea | Feinstein (D-CA), Yea |
Colorado: | Allard (R-CO), Nay | Campbell (R-CO), Yea |
Connecticut: | Dodd (D-CT), Yea | Lieberman (D-CT), Yea |
Delaware: | Biden (D-DE), Not Voting | Carper (D-DE), Yea |
Florida: | Graham (D-FL), Yea | Nelson (D-FL), Yea |
Georgia: | Chambliss (R-GA), Nay | Miller (D-GA), Nay |
Hawaii: | Akaka (D-HI), Yea | Inouye (D-HI), Yea |
Idaho: | Craig (R-ID), Nay | Crapo (R-ID), Nay |
Illinois: | Durbin (D-IL), Yea | Fitzgerald (R-IL), Nay |
Indiana: | Bayh (D-IN), Yea | Lugar (R-IN), Nay |
Iowa: | Grassley (R-IA), Nay | Harkin (D-IA), Yea |
Kansas: | Brownback (R-KS), Nay | Roberts (R-KS), Nay |
Kentucky: | Bunning (R-KY), Nay | McConnell (R-KY), Not Voting |
Louisiana: | Breaux (D-LA), Nay | Landrieu (D-LA), Yea |
Maine: | Collins (R-ME), Yea | Snowe (R-ME), Yea |
Maryland: | Mikulski (D-MD), Yea | Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea |
Massachusetts: | Kennedy (D-MA), Yea | Kerry (D-MA), Yea |
Michigan: | Levin (D-MI), Yea | Stabenow (D-MI), Yea |
Minnesota: | Coleman (R-MN), Nay | Dayton (D-MN), Yea |
Mississippi: | Cochran (R-MS), Nay | Lott (R-MS), Nay |
Missouri: | Bond (R-MO), Nay | Talent (R-MO), Nay |
Montana: | Baucus (D-MT), Yea | Burns (R-MT), Nay |
Nebraska: | Hagel (R-NE), Nay | Nelson (D-NE), Nay |
Nevada: | Ensign (R-NV), Nay | Reid (D-NV), Nay |
New Hampshire: | Gregg (R-NH), Nay | Sununu (R-NH), Nay |
New Jersey: | Corzine (D-NJ), Yea | Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea |
New Mexico: | Bingaman (D-NM), Yea | Domenici (R-NM), Nay |
New York: | Clinton (D-NY), Yea | Schumer (D-NY), Yea |
North Carolina: | Dole (R-NC), Nay | Edwards (D-NC), Yea |
North Dakota: | Conrad (D-ND), Yea | Dorgan (D-ND), Yea |
Ohio: | DeWine (R-OH), Nay | Voinovich (R-OH), Nay |
Oklahoma: | Inhofe (R-OK), Nay | Nickles (R-OK), Nay |
Oregon: | Smith (R-OR), Nay | Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
Pennsylvania: | Santorum (R-PA), Nay | Specter (R-PA), Yea |
Rhode Island: | Chafee (R-RI), Yea | Reed (D-RI), Yea |
South Carolina: | Graham (R-SC), Nay | Hollings (D-SC), Yea |
South Dakota: | Daschle (D-SD), Yea | Johnson (D-SD), Yea |
Tennessee: | Alexander (R-TN), Nay | Frist (R-TN), Nay |
Texas: | Cornyn (R-TX), Nay | Hutchison (R-TX), Yea |
Utah: | Bennett (R-UT), Nay | Hatch (R-UT), Nay |
Vermont: | Jeffords (I-VT), Yea | Leahy (D-VT), Yea |
Virginia: | Allen (R-VA), Nay | Warner (R-VA), Yea |
Washington: | Cantwell (D-WA), Yea | Murray (D-WA), Yea |
West Virginia: | Byrd (D-WV), Yea | Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea |
Wisconsin: | Feingold (D-WI), Yea | Kohl (D-WI), Yea |
Wyoming: | Enzi (R-WY), Nay | Thomas (R-WY), Nay |