Middle East Peace Act of 2009 II (Awaiting Presidential Signature/Veto)

[Associate Justice PiT]

     If this bill leads to more free trade then I'm all for it.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Don't we already have free trade agreements with many of these countries anyway?  Would there current ones be revoked?

     No, they wouldn't.

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[Associate Justice PiT]

No debate on this in awhile, I motion for cloture.

The predisposition towards cloture votes in this Senate is interesting. In this case, for example, no cloture motion was necessary as the bill was more than 72 hours on the floor and hadn't been debated in over 24 hours, so a final vote could simply have been called.

     Yeah, this was useless. I guess it brought attention though as it might have been ignored for a few more days otherwise.

     Aye.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Aye

[Associate Justice PiT]

Veto

     Why, if I may ask?

[Associate Justice PiT]

I would also be interested in the President's reasoning for his veto, but I'm sufficiently convinced of the merits of this bill that I can still vote in favor of overriding his veto at this point.

     I feel the same way about it.

     Aye

[Associate Justice PiT]

So do those abstainations effectivly serve as NAY votes?  Thats always been my understanding in veto overrides.

Yes but unless something changed people still have 24 hours to change their votes.

     Yes, *cough*please change your vote, SPC*cough*.