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Friday, November 18, 2005
The Disappearing Act
Following up on a previous blog posting regarding Sen. Tom Harkin's (D-IA) amendment to the reconciliation tax bill yesterday, it appears that some of his original supporters deserted him during the actual vote. His amendment, which was defeated 50-46 would have increased the amount appropriated to carry out programs under the Community Services Block Grant Act. It failed despite the fact that fifty-eight Senators signed a letter November 9 stating their support for upholding CSBG funding at $637 million in negotiations with the House on the Labor/HHS bill.
It is interesting then that Harkin’s amendment, which proposed to do exactly this, went down in flames. Seventeen Senators who gave their support on to this letter a little over a week ago didn’t show their support when it mattered — during the vote. These Senators were:
Alexander (R-TN)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Allen (R-VA)
Burns (R-MT)
Coleman (R-MN)
Hagel (R-NE)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thune (R-ND)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Santorum (R-PA)
Posted by Becky Lewis
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