Spokesperson: GOP Senator Domenici To Vote Against Withdrawal Next Week

Spokesperson: GOP Senator Domenici To Vote Against Withdrawal Next Week
By Greg Sargent | bio
Here's one wavering GOP Senator who won't be wavering so much next week while voting on whether to withdraw from Iraq: Pete Domenici.

Courtney Sanders, a spokesperson for GOP Senator Domenici, just confirmed to me that next week the Senator would vote against the Reid Levin amendment forcing withdrawal from Iraq.

Sanders emailed me the following:

"Senator Domenici does not support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, nor does he support a date certain drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq. He will vote against any amendment that calls for such measures, including the one being offered by Sens. Levin and Reed, which would mandate that withdrawal of U.S. forces begin within 120 days."

The amendment, by Dem Senators Jack Reed and Carl Levin, would force troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days, to be completed by April of 2008.

Domenici is one of around half a dozen Republican Senators who have been described as "wavering" in their support of the President because they have voiced doubts about his Iraq policies. Here at Election Central, we are calling up the offices of all these waverers to see if they will still be wavering when it comes time to actually vote on withdrawal, which begins next week with Reed-Levin.
Here's a list of the other wavering GOP Senators we're calling to ask which way they're voting:

Susan Collins
Jack Warner
John Sununu
Norm Coleman
Gordon Smith
Dick Lugar

Right now, GOP Senators Olympia Snowe and Chuck Hagel have indicated they'll support Reed-Levin. Smith has indicated he may support it. Now we know Domenici is against.

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out against the pres on Iraq.

attorney firing!

so he trumpets a change of heart to the press and then votes the way he always does, against the interests of his constituents in New Mexico, against his country, and against all vestiges of common sense.

Trust me, he is a neocon loyalist who would rather sell his mother on H street for a quarter than vote against his lord and savior in the White House.

Iraq Study Group Recommendations Implementation Act (S 1545), the bill would keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely, his so called change or break from Bu$h is just re-election smoke and mirrors.

this fax yesterday, guess I better start working on another one: Mr Domenici, I want you to know that as a constituent of yours and Veteran I am as disgusted with you and your vote against the Webb-Hagel Troop Protection Amendment today as a person could be. HOW dare you vote against our troops like that ??? Why do you HATE our troops Mr Domenici, do you have an answer for that???