Senate Votes

On July 13,2006, the US Senate voted on the Vitter amendment, legislation to block future infringements on the right to keep and bear arms. The confiscation of legally owned guns during an emergency such as last year's hurricane Katrina took one more step towards becoming illegal. Sixteen senators voted against this legislation, and therefore, against a fundamental right, not just an American right that our country was founded on, but the human right to self defense. There were no real surprises, or were there?
 
These senators were:
 
Daniel Akaka, HawaiiBarbara Boxer, CaliforniaHillary Clinton, New YorkChristopher Dodd, ConnecticutDick Durbin, Illinois Dianne Feinstein, CaliforniaTom Harkin, IowaDaniel Inouye, HawaiiEdward Kennedy, MassachusettsFrank Lautenberg, New JerseyCarl Levin, MichiganRobert Menéndez, New JerseyBarbara Mikulski, MarylandJack Reed, Rhode IslandPaul Sarbanes, MarylandChuck Schumer, New York


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