Here's a summary of my Twittering [1] :
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 votesup 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 [2], 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 [3]. There's also PublicMarkUp.org with their Senate Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 [4] 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
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