NY Times Congressional Vote for DADT
 

I can't cut and paste the article, but the graphic shows how ever member of the Senate voted today. Am I just going mad, or does it indicate Reid voted against the cloture?

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress...1/senate/2/238

Re: NY Times Congressional Vote for DADT
 

he voted against it so he can bring it up again if it gets voted down

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he did it for a reason, its somewhere on the forums, start a new thread and ask .

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Lurk moar.



this.

By voting against it, it reserves him the right to bring up the bill again later. If he had voted yes it would have been dead this year.

Re: NY Times Congressional Vote for DADT
 

No you're right he voted "Nay", by doing so he will be able to reintroduce the bill later, knowing that today there was not enough votes.

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He voted yes, but when he saw that it was not going to pass he then changed his vote at the last minute to no so that he can bring it up again as majority leader. Don't get mad at him.

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He votes Nay to bring it up again and also he did know for sure he had the 60. If he was the 60th Yay, he would have voted yes.

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I should have known it was something as utterly ridiculous as this. I am more mad at the system. This is just one smaller example of how parliamentary procedure and dumb rules like the filibuster have no place in American politics--at least, insofar as how the system now (dys)functions under the tyranny of the minority.