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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 12:34 PM
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Poll question: Do you think that Reid will get 60 votes (for Iraq debate) on Saturday?
Edited on Fri Feb-16-07 12:34 PM by npincus
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N4/long5.html

But when they convene Saturday afternoon, senators will not debate the Iraq resolution itself. Instead, they will be taking up a procedural vote required under Senate rules to move forward to the actual debate.Democratic leaders were hoping that 10 days of mounting public pressure would lure enough Republicans in the Senate to their side to attain the 60 votes necessary to move to the Iraq resolution. A procedural vote on a similar resolution last week fell 11 votes short, but since then several Republicans who voted to block consideration of that resolution have taken the floor to express dismay that the Senate was, in effect, sidelined in the debate.

Do you think Reid will get the 60 votes to move the House's Iraq resolution to debate?

Thoughts and comments welcome.
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