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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...ote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00296
I'm a pro-science independent, but this thing really could influence my party affiliation.
Apparently, here is the Senate vote that killed it. It was also killed in the House of Reps (but I can't find the voting record for that). I'm kinda confused though. Is it the conservatives or the liberals who killed it here? (Senate voting is sooo confusing for me at least). Bumpers (D-AR) voted Nay and he said that "finding the origin of matter is good, but balancing the federal budget is better." So I'd think that he's vote for cancelling funds for the supercollider.
The Democrats are generally seen as pro-science, who want to shell in big bucks for research. And of coure, superconducting supercollider has little to do with defeating communism at this point so I'd expect the Republicans to vote against it. Still... I'm soo confused...
So... looking at the amendment. It says, sponsored by Bumpers. Yet, Bumpers voted Nay. Voting against his own amendment? I'm confused...
Can anyone care to clarify? Kerry voted Nay and he's the one critisizing Bush for Bush's science record. Also important to note is that the extremely liberal senators (Wellstone, Boxer) voted Nay and the extremely conservative ones (Helms, Thurmond) voted Yea.
Thanks...
I'm a pro-science independent, but this thing really could influence my party affiliation.
Apparently, here is the Senate vote that killed it. It was also killed in the House of Reps (but I can't find the voting record for that). I'm kinda confused though. Is it the conservatives or the liberals who killed it here? (Senate voting is sooo confusing for me at least). Bumpers (D-AR) voted Nay and he said that "finding the origin of matter is good, but balancing the federal budget is better." So I'd think that he's vote for cancelling funds for the supercollider.
The Democrats are generally seen as pro-science, who want to shell in big bucks for research. And of coure, superconducting supercollider has little to do with defeating communism at this point so I'd expect the Republicans to vote against it. Still... I'm soo confused...
So... looking at the amendment. It says, sponsored by Bumpers. Yet, Bumpers voted Nay. Voting against his own amendment? I'm confused...
Can anyone care to clarify? Kerry voted Nay and he's the one critisizing Bush for Bush's science record. Also important to note is that the extremely liberal senators (Wellstone, Boxer) voted Nay and the extremely conservative ones (Helms, Thurmond) voted Yea.
Thanks...
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