The House of Representatives voted 256-153 on a resolution to support the Global War on Terror. The Senate rejected a call to pull troops out of Iraq at the end of year by a 93-6 vote.
Sen. Voinovich and Sen. DeWine were among the 93 voting to table an amendment that set the pull-out date for Iraq.
The breakdown of the Ohio representatives to the House:
John Boehner (R) – Yes
Sherrod Brown (D) – No
Steve Chabot (R) – Yes
David Hobson (R) – Yes
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D) – No
Marcy Kaptur (D) – No
Dennis Kucinich (D) – No
Steven C. LaTourette (R) – Yes
Robert Ney (R) – Yes
Michael Oxley (R) – Yes
Deborah Pryce (R) – Yes
Ralph Regula (R) – Yes
Tim Ryan (D) – No
Jean Schmidt (R) – Yes (noteworthy to Bob Waters 
)
Ted Strickland (D) – No
Pat Tiberi (R) – Yes
Michael Turner (R) – Yes
I think I would ask the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate how he would have voted on the Senate motion. Senator DeWine makes me cringe sometimes, but this makes me wonder the other way.
Ugh, Sherrod Brown represents my area. Although looking at his district map, what a mess! Wonder if there was any gerrymandering going on there?? Isn’t Strickland in the governor’s race? Hope he gets defeated.
Yes, Strickland is the Democrat candidate for the Ohio governor against Ken Blackwell. It should make for interesting debates, since IIRC the articles I’ve read seem to indicate that Strickland isn’t as kooky as most Democrats.
Our local moron, er Congresscritter voted to cut and run. May I borrow someone else’s Congresscritter, please?
Dan, I wish Kansas would do something similar. But I wouldn’t go with what you might think – I am against terrorist and terrorism – but I wouldn’t support a war on ‘global’ terrorism. It divides our military forces too much. Also a pull-out date is good. We all know, especially those who work in the goverment, suspense dates are necessary for action.
Swede,
I hear what you’re saying. We don’t have the manpower to solve the world’s problems. I don’t think anyone’s gonna argue that we are pretty stretched out and increases in activity, say, near Taiwan, North Korea, or Iran could cause us to go with tactical artillery and UAVs rather than invasion.
I don’t agree with a pull-out date for the sake of having a date. A pull-out goal with a schedule and a feedback estimate to completion is good. Iraq will not be completely pacified–WE aren’t completely pacified. There will need to be an acceptable amount of violence and the Iraqis will have to handle it.
There is plenty of reasonable U.S. incentive for us to get out of Iraq–military resources, getting our people home, a “success” for the Republicans in ’08, Iraqi oil dropping the market price and giving us a new trading partner, my employer having a new customer (j/k). I don’t know what incentive there would be to prolong the campaign beyond what is necessary, except for the defense contractor with ammo and machinery to sell.
I’ll all for getting us out–when Iraq no longer is a threat to us once we leave.
Dan, it might be well to make sure that that it\’s clear that this was the vote on a motion to table the amendment to set a date. In essence, a \”yes\” vote is a vote against setting a date to withdraw.
Right, that’s how I read it. Thanks.