Financial Markets Bill (Federal Intervention in Financial Markets) is approved 74 to 25

Here's a summary of my Twittering :

brownback no

cantwell no

no : cantwell, cochran, crapo, dole

dorgen, enzi, feingold, NO

inhofe, landrieu, NO

McCain yes

McCain yes

Nelson (FL), No

Nelson (FL) No. Obama, Yes

Roberts, Sanders, Sessions, Shelby, Stabenow, Tester, Vitter, Wicker, Wyden, NO

Barrraso, DeMint, Johnson, Allard, NO

Do they need 2/3 of the votes? Can someone please clarify? They don't have them yet.

There's several no-shows including Kennedy.

56 votes with several unconfirmed no-shows

58 and Kennedy is a no-show

58 and Kennedy is a no-show
they reached 60 votes

up to 65 now ... Kennedy didn't vote

up to 65 now ... Kennedy didn't vote

74 yes, 25 no

now this bill goes to the House. we have until Friday to read this ---450 pages of it.

As I told Gregg, this buys everybody involved some political time. The Senate's amendment to the Paulson bill goes to the House --were 200+ forward thinking Democrats and Republicans had killed the first Paulson bill. They can make further changes between now and Friday.

So where to go to read the bill? Glad you asked! The Sunlight Foundation has been working OVERTIME to get these bills scanned, HTMLized and posted to the web.

We have GovTrac's side-by-side change tracker of the bill(s) : Economic Stimulus Bill Text Tracker. There's also PublicMarkUp.org with their Senate Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 section, where you can actually comment each section of the bill.

And thanks to the Sunlight Foundation's John Wonderlich's unending quest for bleeding edge web technology, I have the whole bill as an embed

Get your own - Open publication

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