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[luciazephyr]

THE NEW GI BILL PASSED THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE!

YES!

I am so thrilled. It was a landslide today with 75 yea votes.

Here's the roll call on it. Apparently McCain was to busy to vote on something for the platform he's running on. Motherfucker.

But whatever, fuck him. IT PASSED! With enough votes that if Bush vetos it, they could override. Wouldn't that be awesome?

:dances:

-Luce

Comments

[yourbarista.livejournal.com]

I'm going to dedicate drinks to both Hagel and Webb tonight. This is fabulous.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Webb especially. God, I love that man. He's up there with Feingold on the awesome scale for this.

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

I NO RITE?

The guy has huevos GRANDES. To run on your military record, then not be there to vote on a GI Bill?

I'm sure our friends Paul Rieckhoff (IAVA) and Jon Soltz (VoteVets) will be popping up regularly to remind us of that fact. As well they should.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Paul's gonna be on Rachel's show in a bit. So Yaaaaaaay! ilu, Paul! ♥

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

Did it actually get enough in the House? When I looked earlier today I thought it wasn't a veto-proof margin in the House.

And yeah - when I looked at the list and realized McCain hadn't even shown up, I kind of wanted to punch something. But I was at work, so I had to hold the rage in. :(

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

It is beyond veto-proof in the House. The House rocked it, huge majority going for it.

And seriously, it doesn't matter that he didn't show up. He was going to vote nay anyway. The fucker.

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

I'm confused - am I doing the math wrong? It says here (http://gibill2008.org/news/?p=49) that 256 Representatives voted for the bill, with 12 abstaining. Two-thirds of 435 is 290. How is it veto-proof?

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

.... It's not. I thought it was around 300 yea. My fault.

:wonders how the hell she got that wrong:

[ahab99.livejournal.com]

There is a previous news item on the site saying it had 300 cosponsors in the House, which I imagine is where you go the number. But that also raises the larger question: how did they lose 40 cosponsors in the final vote?! And is there any chance those 40 would come back and vote the other way if Bush does veto?

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

That might have been it. I assumed after the vote that the cosponsor count on the IAVA site held. :kicks things: Why would anyone back out? :fumes:

[garageinc74.livejournal.com]

That puts a smile on my face.