Senate blocks outsourcing of some federal jobs (ignores WH veto threat)

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (AP)

The Republican-led Senate ignored a White House veto threat Wednesday and voted to block President Bush from handing some Homeland Security Department jobs to private companies.

A victory for Democrats and labor unions representing federal workers, the 49-47 vote was an embarrassing setback for Republicans and a bow to election-year pressures. And it further snarled efforts by GOP leaders to adjourn Congress for the year in October, before the Nov. 2 elections.

The language was added to a popular $32 billion bill financing the Homeland Security Department next year. The White House budget office warned of the veto in a written statement to lawmakers. ..

Debate on the bill ended before dinner Wednesday as Republican leaders hunted for votes to derail a Democratic amendment challenging major changes to the nation's overtime pay rules that the Bush administration implemented last month. The vote is expected Thursday.


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[wolfgirl]

1. small miracles are

always welcome!

[MichiganVote]

2. Balls in the Republican Senate? What a concept.

[lovuian]

3. Well they are Elected officials not supreme court Appointed

that makes them a little more sensitive to their constituents

[napi21]

4. BS, it's election time! They are more worried about thier own sorry a**es

than they are about Shrubs.