[Update: Vote Underway] The Senate debate is getting heated!
By SusanUnPC on February 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM in Congress (House & Senate)
UPDATE: The vote is underway. (6:47 p.m. ET). Update #2: “Vote to be held open until roughly 10:30 pm, so Ohio Sen. Brown can return from a memorial service for his mother,” via Time‘s Mark Halperin. (MSNBC reports that President Obama lent Sen. Brown a government-owned plane so that he can make it back in time for the vote. He’ll land at Andrews AFB. WOW!!! Talk about going the extra mile for a vote!!!)
[IMAGE: "Read the list of House Democrats who did not support the stimulus plan-- click here.."] Check out C-Span2. Charles Schumer is yelling at the Republicans! The Senate was supposed to vote at 2:30 p.m. ET, but it doesn’t sound like they’re even close yet to voting! (I wonder if Harry Reid has enough votes without Teddy Kennedy around.) Of course the measure passed the House, without a SINGLE Republican vote, again.
Something else that has struck me: Those three Republicans — Specter, Snow and Collins – who voted with the Democrats have so much power, that it’s scary! They are calling ALL the shots on what can remain or must be removed from the bill. This will go down as one of the strangest pieces of major legislation, given the deep divide between the parties.
SEE ALSO: “Conference tactics leave deep resentment,” TheHill.com






















