Murkowski: Words, Words,Words, Then a 'No' Vote

With her smackdown of Bobby Jindal you would think that Murkowski was ready to fund the volcano monitoring, wouldn't you? Uh-uh.

In reality, Murkowski voted against the stimulus package that provided funding for volcano monitoring. Wonder how her constituents feel about this.

The 60-38 roll call by which the Senate on Friday passed an $787 billion economic recovery plan.

On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote in favor of the bill.

There is one vacancy in the Senate.

Voting "yes" were 55 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 independents.

Voting "no" were 0 Democrats and 38 Republicans.

Alabama

Sessions (R) No; Shelby (R) No.

Alaska

Begich (D) Yes; Murkowski (R) No.

The stoopid, it burns us, precious! You just can't make this up.

And so it goes.

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