Necessary Roughness

Ohio’s U.S. Senators voted today on H.R. 1951, the “emergency” supplemental appropriations bill that stipulates a pull-out date and some major pork (PDF).

H.R. 1951 passed the Senate as amended 51-47-2. Republicrat Voinovich voted for military deadlines, Democrat Brown voted against. Go figure.

The bill had passed the House 218-212 with one abstention and 3 not voting.

John Boehner (R) - No
Steve Chabot (R) - No
Paul Gillmor (R) - No
David Hobson (R) - No
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D) - Yes
Marcy Kaptur (D) - Yes
Dennis J. Kucinich (D) - No
Steven C. LaTourette (R) - No
Deborah Pryce (R) - No
Ralph Regula (R) - No
Tim Ryan (D) - Yes
Jean Schmidt (R) - No
Zack Space (D) - Yes
Betty Sutton (D) - Yes
Pat Tiberi (R) - No
Michael Turner (R) - No
Charles A. Wilson (D) - Yes

Congressman Kucinich wasn’t satisfied with the timetable. Here’s what he had to say today on his house.gov website:

Even though Congress had, and still has the authority to end the war now, we instead gave it new life with last week’s vote.

Now $195 billion, on top of last week’s supplemental, means that close to $300 billion in a week has been approved to continue the war.

Guess he couldn’t be bought with enough pork.