Articles by Brian Beutler
Brian Beutler is a contributing writer for Grist as well as Washington correspondent for The Media Consortium. In his spare time he writes an eponymous blog.
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Another terrible bill?
I'll cover the debate over the omnibus spending bill here tomorrow. It's being held until at least then, as the Senate deals with FISA shenanigans, which you can view for the next several hours on C-SPAN 2.
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Final roll call of votes on the weakened energy bill
Here's the official roll call (the names won't be up for a few minutes yet). A bittersweet day, to say the least.
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Weakened energy bill passes
The bill passes 86 to 8. Again, I will post the full Roll Call when it's posted on the Senate website shortly.
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Roll Call on the energy bill
Roll call is still going on, and the thing has gone way over the top. For whatever reason, when Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) was called, and voted no, it rang in my ear. So I went and checked, and sure enough, she's switched her vote. Not sure what animated her. The Michigan thing? Not being able to say she supported a CAFE bill because of its renewable energy requirements?
Others may have switched. I'll post the full roll call when it's up.
