{"id":191873,"date":"2009-06-11T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/congress-votes-to-instruct-conferees-to-keep-graham-lieberman-amendment\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:27:00","slug":"congress-votes-to-instruct-conferees-to-keep-graham-lieberman-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/11\/congress-votes-to-instruct-conferees-to-keep-graham-lieberman-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Votes to Instruct Conferees to Keep Graham-Lieberman Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>95 Dems voted with the Republicans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congressmatters.com\/story\/2009\/6\/11\/1110\/-Supplemental-action-on-the-House-floor\">instruct the conference Representatives on the conference committee to keep the amendment to hide torture photos<\/a> in the Iraq\/Afghanistan supplemental, in a stunning display of cowardice.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it&#8217;s non-binding, and will probably be ignored by the conferees, but jeebus this is hypocritical, particularly for the Dems in safe districts who voted for it.<\/p>\n<p>It will be ignored by the conferees because the &#8216;Phants will all vote against the supplemental, because they are opposed to the IMF money, so the Progressive Caucus can actually kill this bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95 Dems voted with the Republicans to instruct the conference Representatives on the conference committee to keep the amendment to hide torture photos in the Iraq\/Afghanistan supplemental, in a stunning display of cowardice. Thankfully, it&#8217;s non-binding, and will probably be ignored by the conferees, but jeebus this is hypocritical, particularly for the Dems in safe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1020,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}