Yes, we can.

[Tom]

Scaegles, do you have a link that shows it was filibustered? I've been looking around and have been unable to find any evidence that it was. The article you posted never said it was. According to the Senate website the last action on the bill was "Jul 28, 2005: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably," which seems to indicate that it never left committee. The Republicans should have at least been able to get it out of committee on a party line vote, even if it didn't come before the full senate later.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Tom

Scaegles, do you have a link that shows it was filibustered? I've been looking around and have been unable to find any evidence that it was. The article you posted never said it was. According to the Senate website the last action on the bill was "Jul 28, 2005: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably," which seems to indicate that it never left committee. The Republicans should have at least been able to get it out of committee on a party line vote, even if it didn't come before the full senate later.

Yeah, that's why I said "I think". I haven't had the time to research it so I apologize for anything that might have misled.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if a combination of dems and republicans stopped it from coming out of committee. To me, the main point was that McCain at least seemed to see that this was coming, but this is the Obama thread, not the McCain thread, as ISM pointed out, so the subject matter doesn't fit here.