GOP Blocks Senate Vote Against Bush Iraq Plan

Associated Press February 17, 2007 10:44 AM

The vote was 56-34. That was four short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which is identical to a nonbinding resolution that Democrats pushed through the House on Friday.

"The Senate, on behalf of the American people, must make it clear to the commander in chief that he no longer has a rubber stamp in Iraq," said Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., in the final moments before the vote.

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