U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 2nd Session
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Vote Summary
Question: On the Amendment (Dodd Amdt. No. 5685 ) Vote Number: 212 Vote Date: October 1, 2008, 09:07 PM Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Amendment Agreed to Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 5685 to H.R. 1424 (A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.) Statement of Purpose: In the nature of a substitute. Vote Counts: YEAs 74 NAYs 25 Not Voting 1
....and the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it. I will make them famous, and you will know their names. You will know their names.
The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to "engage and inspire" the local population to support U.S. objectives and the Iraqi government.
The new contracts -- awarded last week to four companies -- will expand and consolidate what the U.S. military calls "information/psychological operations" in Iraq far into the future, even as violence appears to be abating and U.S. troops have begun drawing down. ...