Thread: WHAT????

Has anyone else been watching the Senate tonight? They were voting on amendments just now and the last one up was a McCain amendment that would REMOVE THE BUY AMERICAN PROVISION from the 'generational theft' spending bill. Someone please tell me I heard wrong and that Senator Sessions and Senator Inhofe voted against this amendment. Because what I heard is they voted to REMOVE the Buy American provision.

Because the rest of the world is mad about it and calling us protectionist...the cowards are getting scared

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Because the rest of the world is mad about it and calling us protectionist...the cowards are getting scared

Well, I guess I'm a 'Protectionist' and a 'Nativist' and I'm PROUD OF IT!

The amendment didn't pass, but we still need to know who voted for it. I tuned in just when they began the vote process on this amendment so I didn't hear the 2 minute back and forth before the vote. My jaw was literally on the floor when I 'thought' I heard them say Sessions and Inhofe voted for it.

Standard operating procedures SCREW THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

Ya seems we have up set Canada and the WTO, Brown from Britain would not comment...he seems to be having the same problem with the Brits they want to have a "Buy British campaign"

Globalization is not going over real big with Americans

I'll just bet it was a shock to turn it on and see them voting on that

Got it! Here is the vote count

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (McCain Amdt. No. 279 )
Vote Number: 44 Vote Date: February 4, 2009, 08:27 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 279 to S.Amdt. 98 to H.R. 1 (No short title on file)
Statement of Purpose: To prohibit the applicability of Buy American requirements in the Act to the utilization of funds provided by the Act.
Vote Counts: YEAs 31
NAYs 65
Not Voting 3

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---31
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Wicker (R-MS)
NAYs ---65
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 3
Gregg (R-NH)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... 4#position

WOW thanks for posting it, I am shocked also and both of Idaho Senators voted to take it out BUT Sessions?

So are we buying American or not?

agrneydgrl......... for now buy American still is a part of the stimulus but it's fate remains to be seen when the House-Senate Conference Committee meets to iron out differences in the bill prior to another vote in each chamber then it is submitted to Obama for his signature.



Not only Sessions but DeMint and Coburn too who usually have been staunch supporters of the American people in opposing Comprehensive Immigration Amnesty and protecting American workers. This now makes me wonder if e-verify will suffer the same fate............

This is very strange. Sessions voted to get rid of "Buy American" and Durbin voted to keep it? Do we have this right?