Where the CAFTA vote count stands tonight

No one knows when the vote on CAFTA will occur, but it could come as early as this afternoon. Or – as Tom DeLay put it – "it could come at 4 in the morning, "whenever we have the votes."

Some 218 votes are needed for passage, and critics and proponents predict the outcome will be extremely close. Indeed, it could be decided by just one vote.

The insider publication Congress Daily reported yesterday that 123 House members plan to vote "yes" or are leaning toward "yes," with 172 members planning to vote or leaning to vote "no." That leaves 138 members who are undecided or not saying.

"That' why President Bush is making a special effort to talk to House Republicans behind closed doors," Kent Snyder, executive director of the Liberty Committee, told WorldNetDaily. "They know how close this vote is going to be. They know the grassroots constituents from around the country are rallying against it, so they're doing everything they can – selling bridges, giving away bridges, making promises they'll never keep, they're doing everything they can to get this through.

since it is a WND link
I just use a cut and past one. We don't need more disrupter traffic

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to these closed-door meetings if that's what it takes to pass CAFTA. Must be a ton of money for him and his buddies at stake.

Central America has to give up their generic drugs and import patented Drugs from the US. They are barred from manufacturing generic drugs using the patented formula for five years.

There have been so many protests in the countries about the drug issue, the privatization of natural resources issue and the sugar issue.

The leaders of these countries are going to get tons of under the table money for selling out their citizens so they are eager to sign.