{"id":3280,"date":"2007-03-27T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/27\/its-still-alive-senate-supports-non-binding-timeline\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:45:22","slug":"its-still-alive-senate-supports-non-binding-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3280","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Still Alive: Senate Supports Non-Binding Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/23\/how-far-is-this-going-to-go-house-oks-timetable-for-troops-in-iraq\/\">House of Representatives vote for an Iraq withdrawal timetable<\/a>.\u00a0 I asked how far this would go.\u00a0 Well now the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070327\/ap_on_go_co\/us_iraq;_ylt=AmHsnvf1Reyfg6Ee0CYqj2ms0NUE\">Senate has also voted for a timetable<\/a>, a nonbinding timetable, which is better than nothing but\u00a0not too courageous\u00a0if you ask me.\u00a0 Here is\u00a0a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As drafted, the legislation called for troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days, with a non-binding goal that calls for the combat troops to be gone within a year. The measure also includes a series of suggested goals for the Iraqi government to meet to provide for its own security, enhance democracy and distribute its oil wealth fairly \u2014 provisions designed to attract support from Nelson and Sen. Mark Pryor (news, bio, voting record) of Arkansas. Despite the change, Pryor voted to delete the timeline. The vote was a critical test for Reid and the new Democratic majority in the Senate nearly three months after they took power. Despite several attempts, they had yet to win approval for any legislation challenging Bush&#8217;s policies. Republicans prevented debate over the winter on non-binding measures critical of Bush&#8217;s decision to deploy an additional 21,500 troops. That led to the 50-48 vote derailing a bill that called for a troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days but set only a non-binding target of March 31, 2008, for the departure of the final combat forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? (Ah-hem Robert.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I posted about the House of Representatives vote for an Iraq withdrawal timetable.\u00a0 I asked how far this would go.\u00a0 Well now the Senate has also voted for a timetable, a nonbinding timetable, which is better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,27,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}