Friday, July 21, 2006

AN UPDATE ON CONGRESS'S VOTE ON ISRAEL

As I mentioned in an earlier post, yesterday the House voted 410-8 in favor of a resolution "condemning the recent attacks against the State of Israel, holding terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for such attacks, [and] supporting Israel's right to defend itself." I mentioned the 8 who voted against the resolution, but not the 4 who didn't even have the courage of their twisted convictions and voted, "present."

Here's a full list of the 12 congressmen who declined to support Israel:

Voting "no"
Neil Abercrombie (D., Hawaii)
John Conyers (D., Mich.)
John Dingell (D., Mich.)
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D., Mich.)
Jim McDermott (D., Wash.)
Ron Paul (R., Texas)
Nick Rahall (D., W.Va.)
Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (D., Calif.)

Voting "present"
Marcy Kaptur (D., Ohio)
Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio)
Barbara Lee (D., Calif.)
Maxine Waters (D., Calif.)

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