Thanks for posting.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend.

Way too much for me when I am on hydrocodone + valium. It was fun being repetitive but geez, I thought I would let people just read it the hard way.

Read who voted for and against and why.

opposed each other just about every time. If you click on the vote I think it brings up the entire bill and how everyone voted.

opposite sides. Interesting stuff, thanks for posting this.

doing it again later as I guess it would be something everyone will want to look at every so often.

Hawk and a Dove, I'll choose the Dove every time.

but many of the ones I can I like hers better than his. His homeland security votes were to be honest pork for Vermont and other rural states at the expense of New York and other urban ones. I also agreed with her votes on immigration over his. I likely favor his over hers on defense but have no idea what the deal about Casey was. I also agreed with him on earmarks.

the people who elected them. Kind of why the voters sent them there. Now days the ones from Arkansas only seem to represent the Koch brothers and keep sending things their way instead of Arkansas's way.

places like New York, Chicago, and LA which were real targets were getting less funding per capita than places like Montana which weren't. I don't mind earmarking parks, university funding etc. But funds that were supposed to be used to harden targets should have been spend on the most tempting targets first.

they tear up the streets and mileage is gallons per mile. So for me it is kind of funny. But I guess like WW2 surplus tanks, they will end up as park ornaments for kids to crawl around on. We were hoping that Bill Clinton would send something our way, but never managed. I guess they were already planing on New York.

understanding of the situation why this was needed, another point against Bernie and his handling of the office of president.

He realized early on that the CEO's of those major banks were going to get away with everything they had done due to the way the bill was written.

then it's too big to exist. -Bernie Sanders

Gets right to the matter of what separates Bernie and Hillary.

Three things of particular interest to me stood out:

1) She voted against, and he for, transferring Guantanamo prisoners to US jails. This was a step toward closure of that shameful shithole. Bernie got that right.

2) She voted yea and he no on two anti-Iran measures. I oppose provocative hostilities toward Iran. Bernie got that right.

3) On 6 occasions she voted for cloture, he against. These were all on immigration. When I have time I'll research this, but it stands to reason they were filibusters against the Republicans and a 'bite me' vote on general principle seems appropriate. Bernie got that right.

* edited to count the cloture votes

every Republican in the Senate, every single, solitary last one, voted for that filibuster, something you could have found out by merely clicking the link provided by the Times. Bernie and 14 others voted with all 47 of the Republicans.

Here is the link which backs me up.

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/110/senate/1/203

Two of the votes are exactly what I said they were. You provided the breakdown for his 7th rejection of this bill.

and now have the nerve to say I will attack you. The link the OP provided gives the breakdown of all 7 votes and links to see the partisan breakdowns of those votes. They are two clicks away from here, one from the link in the OP. Two of the votes are exactly and precisely what I said they were. One, the last, is the vote you site. Which, BTW, I said in the previous post which you apparently didn't bother to read.

I made a mess of my response above, so I re-typed it hopefully more coherently here.

I told you I didn't have time to dig into the weeds on this. On quick glance, I quoted the vote stats mentioned in the article the OP provided. I said you misstated the stats noted in the article, and it turns out you were quoting something else that you further researched. In other words, we weren't talking about the same thing.

My curiosity got the better of me (which is treacherous if you work at home like I do), and I ferreted out Bernie's explanation for the 2007 votes on immigration that I posted below in answer to someone else, if you are interested. Of note the AFL-CIO praised his stance for whatever it's worth. I like that Bernie can and will explain any vote he has made.

I will state, again, that the two issues below mentioned in the article - Guantanamo and Iran - are of particular interest to me since foreign policy is by far my #1 concern and why I cannot in good conscience vote for Hillary.

1) She voted against, and he for, transferring Guantanamo prisoners to US jails. This was a step toward closure of that shameful shithole. Bernie got that right.

2) She voted yea and he no on two anti-Iran measures. I oppose provocative hostilities toward Iran. Bernie got that right.

I actually disagree with Sanders on the immigration votes, IF the reasoning stated is correct. It sounds like he REALLY wanted to keep fraud out of the VISA program, but I think the overall benefits would have outweighed the negatives associated with fraud in that case. Still, if there was more in-depth info presented on the bill, it's certainly possible I'd change my mind. Obviously Sanders would have had far more info than any casual reader of the NY Times piece.

Shit. I'm supposed to be working, but I was too curious about this. This is Bernie's explanation of those votes in 2007.

The NYT saying it was about 'fraud' is a bit misleading there then. Thanks. So back to being on Bernie's side on pretty much every vote, then.

I really like and admire that he will always explain each and every vote he has made.