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Senate Bill Demands the Military Lock Up American Citizens without due process of LAW
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<blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 1666111" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>Two votes that everyone should be aware of:</p><p></p><p>An amendment was proposed to strike the section authorizing detainment of US citizens, and at least replace it with a request for a review of if such power would be Constitutional. It was <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/s/210" target="_blank">defeated soundly</a>, with the "conservative" Republican vote tally being 2 Ayes (Kirk and Paul) to 44 Nays to 1 Abstain (Murkowski). So be sure to let Coburn and Inhofe know that you don't appreciate their on-going support of shredding the United States Constitution. Overall vote was 37-61-2.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps this is an attempt to gauge public backlash by the Senate? The House passed a companion bill with similar language back in May (not near as vague, but my reading says that it could still be interpreted in an extremely broad manner as the AUMF of 2001 has) that is still alive and able to be considered in the Senate. That bill <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/375" target="_blank">passed</a> 322-96-13, with the "conservatives" voting 227-6-6 for this bill that also includes provisions to allow the military to be paid directly by the private sector and explicitly gives special preference to certain contractors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvvvvvv, post: 1666111, member: 5151"] Two votes that everyone should be aware of: An amendment was proposed to strike the section authorizing detainment of US citizens, and at least replace it with a request for a review of if such power would be Constitutional. It was [URL="http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/s/210"]defeated soundly[/URL], with the "conservative" Republican vote tally being 2 Ayes (Kirk and Paul) to 44 Nays to 1 Abstain (Murkowski). So be sure to let Coburn and Inhofe know that you don't appreciate their on-going support of shredding the United States Constitution. Overall vote was 37-61-2. Perhaps this is an attempt to gauge public backlash by the Senate? The House passed a companion bill with similar language back in May (not near as vague, but my reading says that it could still be interpreted in an extremely broad manner as the AUMF of 2001 has) that is still alive and able to be considered in the Senate. That bill [URL="http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/375"]passed[/URL] 322-96-13, with the "conservatives" voting 227-6-6 for this bill that also includes provisions to allow the military to be paid directly by the private sector and explicitly gives special preference to certain contractors. [/QUOTE]
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