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Democrats give Obama victory in Defunding Fight

That there are two parties of imperialist war in the United States was again demonstrated when most Democrats (149) voted to keep the dollars flowing to support Obama's "no hostilities" bombing of Libyan civilians. Only thirty-sex Democrats voted to defund the operations that Obama claims do not rise to the level of "hostilities" as defined by the War Powers Act.
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The roll call vote on June 24 shows that only two Chicago Democrats voted to defund the aggression (Lipinski, Jackson) while Rush, Davis, Gutierrez and Schakowsky voted with Obama despite his clear violation of the War Powers Act in refusing to take his case for continuing US war in Libya to the Congress.

For a complete vote tally go to:
clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll494.xml
 
 

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