Did senate vote on the BFEE tool for Interior Secretary yet?

Little blm has chicken pox and I don't have much time today - so I need to play catch up here.

Thanks.

They'll just sneak him when Paula Abdul gets a DWI or Britney drops her baby or some such shit.

Dirk Kempthorne, or something like that. The only Senator who got up to oppose the confirmation was Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida. He said he didn't want any oil drilling off the Florida coasts. If memory serves me correctly, they took a cloture vote to close debate, then a voice vote to confirm him.

company man.

And only EIGHT dems voted against cloture.

:banghead:


Thanks to these eight:

Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Schumer (D-NY)


Pfffttt!! to the rest.

the serious discussions going on about the environment these days.

Nay on the cloture vote on Dirk Kempthorne:
NAYs ---8
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Schumer (D-NY)

No on Gen. Hayden as DCI:
NAYs ---15
Bayh (D-IN)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Obama (D-IL)
Specter (R-PA)
Wyden (D-OR)

No on Kavanaugh for the DC Circuit Judgeship:

NAYs ---36
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

(Bolding means someone is in all three lists)

But, I'm glad she's seeing the wisdom of shifting left. Some of the Clinton crowd may be waking up to the smell of coffee.

BushCo digs up a bad guy to join his team and if that person doesn't get confirmed, another bad guy is waiting in the wings to take the first one's place. Seems like it is a bottomless pit.

It is a gain for Idaho because they got rid of their governor, but such a big loss for the country.