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Senate Rift Over Iraq War Resolution
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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Senator John Warner, Republican dealbroker from Virginia, took to the Senate floor this afternoon in a somewhat unexpected move, to offer his anti-surge, pro-soldier funding resolution to the must-pass "continuing resolution" funding measure that will finance the federal government for the next year.
Without the continuing resolution (CR), the government runs out of funding Thursday at midnight.
Republican Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Susan Collins of Maine have made speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate in support of the move by Senator Warner.
Brilliant parliamentary maneuvering or holding the coffers hostage?The amendment itself is not subject to a 60 vote threshold (which means it could garner the simple majority votes it needs to be attached to the underlying bill). So if Republicans wanted to continue their filibuster of the Warner resolution, they would have to filibuster the continuing resolution.
But this is exactly the reason that you won't see a vote on the Warner resolution amendment. Senator Harry Reid had "filled the amendment tree" on the CR last week.
So procedurally, Senator Reid controls which amendments can be considered. If Senator Reid does not do some procedural rejiggering before the cloture vote on the CR tomorrow, the Warner resolution will simply fall away because it is non-germane to the CR.
And Senator Harry Reid is in no mood to give Senator John Warner a parliamentary victory at the moment (nor does he want to appear to be using the must-pass CR to force a vote against the surge). Remember that Senator Warner and all but two of his Republican cosponsors were among the Republicans who voted to filibuster the resolution one week ago.
Then midweek last week, Senator Warner announced that he had changed his mind and would now try to attach his anti-surge resolution to any legislation to which it would stick.
Reid's spokesman, Jim Manley, said today that Reid will not make room in the CR amendment tree for the Warner resolution because, he said, Warner and his Republican colleagues had the opportunity to vote for the resolution last week and they chose instead to block it.
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