Russ is up on C-SPAN 2!

[JackBeck]

Give 'em hell!

[acmejack]

1. Thanks for the heads up

[burythehatchet]

2. thanks, been wating for him

[JackBeck]

3. Says it's making gays and lesbians feel like 2nd class citizens.

[JackBeck]

4. Two loving people should be allowed to enter into this contract,

regardless of sex.

[dogday]

5. Oh Yes

Go for it Russ... He is the man....

[JackBeck]

6. Talking about how religious institutions don't have to

recognize same-sex marriages in Mass., debunking the talking point that same-sex marriages would force churches to recognize them.

[Avalux]

7. He's dissecting the amendment -

The language of the amendment is ambiguous - the people behind the amendment itself are not in agreement on which way to go. It wouldn't stand up to challenges by states. In other words, it's garbage.

[JackBeck]

9. You beat me too it. n/t

[cspanlovr]

8. I love him..Run Russ, Run!

"I want to bear his child!"...Lola Heatherton

[AndyA]

10. I love Russ Feingold!

What a smart, intelligent, handsome, well-spoken man. So different from what we have occupying the White House right now.

The country would be so much better off if Feingold were President.

[JackBeck]

11. David Vitter: I stand in strong support of this amendment.

:puke:

[AndyA]

12. David Vitter (A-LA): Someone needs to give this asshole a Tabasco enema!

He is so proud and honored to support the amendment, one that makes discrimination and bigotry a part of our Constitution.

Where in the f*ck do these people come from?

[helderheid]

13. he made the argument against divorce, not gay marriage!

[AndyA]

15. He must have done that after I tuned him out.

I got so sick of listening to him, I had to take a break! After hearing how proud he was to support this amendment, blah blah bullshit blah, I couldn't listen any longer.

[bdamomma]

14. Orrin Hatch is on now

did I miss Feingold, now I hope everyone is calling their senators and telling them this whole Federal Marriage thing is a not a Constitutional thing, it should be a state thing.

Geez, Orrin shut the hell up.

[Synnical]

16. Feingold's comments from his website

http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/statements/06/06/20060606.htm

As Prepared for Delivery from the Floor of the U.S. Senate

June 6, 2006

Mr. President, the Constitution of the United States is an historic guarantee of individual freedom. For over two centuries it has served as a beacon of hope, an example to people around the world who yearn to be free and to live their lives without government interference with their most basic personal decisions. I took an oath when I joined this body to support and defend the Constitution. I am saddened, therefore, to be once again debating an amendment to our Constitution that is so inconsistent with our Nation's history of expanding and protecting freedom.

There are serious issues facing this Congress -- the war in Iraq, health care, high gas prices, relief and recovery after Hurricane Katrina, the economy. These are the issues on which the American people are demanding that Congress act. But instead, we are spending much of this week debating this poorly thought out, divisive, and politically motivated constitutional amendment that everyone knows has no chance of success in the Senate.

The proposed constitutional amendment before the Senate today, S. J. Res. 1, has no better chance of getting a two-thirds majority in the Senate than it did in 2004, another election year. There are no new court decisions that supporters of the amendment can legitimately argue make it any more imperative now than it was then that such an amendment be passed. Yet the Judiciary Committee was ordered to mark up this amendment to fit a schedule announced by the Majority Leader months ago.

This is pure politics, an election year gambit. Mr. President, we should not play politics with the Constitution. Nor should we play politics with the lives of gay and lesbian Americans who correctly see this constitutional amendment as an effort to make them permanent second class citizens.

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