Resolution Blocked

Vote on Iraq is blocked by GOP
Updated 2/5/2007 11:46 pm

By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Republicans blocked the Senate from delivering a politically embarrassing rebuke of President Bush's Iraq policy Monday in a maneuver that could have implications for the conduct of the war and for next year's elections.

Both parties immediately moved to gain political advantage from the impasse. More...

SENATE ROLL CALL: How they voted

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Senate Fails to End Debate on Iraq Resolution
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 Fox News

WASHINGTON — The Senate's Democratic majority failed Monday to shut off debate on a non-binding resolution that "disagrees" with President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, throwing debate on the policy into limbo and depriving Democrats of a bipartisan rebuke of the White House.

The vote on a motion to end debate was 49 to 47, well short of the 60 votes necessary to stop discussion and move toward passage of the non-binding resolution sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R- Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.

Forty-seven Democrats voted to end debate. They were joined by two Republicans, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Susan Collins of Maine. More....