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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***** LIVE Senate debate on ENDA *****
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/Amendment and procedural vote coming soon. Now debating amendment by Republicans that would allow for-profit business to discriminate on the basis of some slight association with a religion.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)but all the bigots are voted YES.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Serves them right once in a while to be up against the rule they use to obstruct.
Mass
(27,315 posts)(It did not need the 60 vote limit)
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)50 - 37 currently. 60 AYEs needed to pass.
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)I haven't been wrong yet on this particular procedural vote.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Voting begins. Great to see Sen. Heitkamp in the chair for this historic moment.
Mass
(27,315 posts)So it should pass.
Collins
Heller
Hatch
Flake
Kirk
Portman
Toomey
Murkowski
McCain
Mass
(27,315 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,325 posts)Cloture invoked.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The 62 Ayes are a good harbinger for passage too.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Will the Republican leadership even allow this to come to the floor?
Mass
(27,315 posts)So it will take a lot of noise from GOPers wanting to vote AYE for this to happen (not that many though apparently Paul Ryan falls on the right side of this issue).
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Let's hope not.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Heidi may be getting hungry. Everyone else is gone.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Sen. Sherrod Brown starting the debate. "Currently legal in 29 states ... fired for who you love..."
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Merkley calling on Boehner to bring this to a vote in the House.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,325 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,325 posts)Done @ 51-32 2:05 pm
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)One for the history books. Now to bomb Boehner with public sentiment.
Mass
(27,315 posts)One can dream.
LBN: Breaking: In Historic Vote, Senate Passes ENDA
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