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Senator Thad Cochran
Republican • Mississippi • 10th Term • Sworn In 1973
- 2 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 94 of 100) 0 Made Into Law (Ranks 16 of 100)
- 122 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 35 of 100) 3 Made Into Law (Ranks 17 of 100)
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- Sen. Richard Shelby
- Sen. Ben Nelson
- Least often votes with:
- Sen. Olympia Snowe
- Sen. Russell Feingold
- Votes with party 79%
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Let's end Bush's Humpty-Dumpty lexicography
The Senate's deadline is next March, but it is only a guideline (the House passed a hard deadline), and may not survive at all, if an amendment offered by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) to strip any mention of a deadline from the bill is ...
Olbermann's Ooops
The most important error is that no filibuster was possible on the proposal in question. It was a Republican proposal, an amendment offered by Sen. Thad Cochran, a Republican from Mississippi, to the emergency Iraq spending bill. ...
Senate Approves Iraq Timetable
Senators voted 50 to 48 to reject the amendment, which was introduced by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. In vote several weeks ago on a similar measure, only 48 senators supported ...
US Senate backs troop withdrawal in 08
Additionally, GOP Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. The presidents strategy is ...
Gordon Must Be Worried
Senators voted 50 to 48 to reject the amendment, which was introduced by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. And there was a sign that Oregon's own Gordon Smith is getting really ...
Nebraska Senators Provide an Important Victory in Iraq Debate
The majority defeated an amendment offered by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, that would have removed the date. Nelson and Hagel both opposed a Senate resolution calling for a ...
Dems press Iraq vote despite veto threat
As the Senate debated the bill Tuesday, the White House ... troops out as of Aug. 31, 2008. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., has proposed striking the ... "I think if the public timetable remains, Senator Pryor would likely oppose" the ...
Impending critical Senate vote on Iraq
The Senate is approaching a vote on an amendment by Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to remove the language about the timetable for bringing the troops home. The vote will be very close. And, it is a critical vote that start the process of ...
First Shoe Drops
Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi offered an amendment to remove the withdrawal language from the emergency spending bill to fund the war. The House approved a measure last week that would force US troops to leave Iraq by the ...
Senate signals support for Iraq timeline.
... Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Oregon, vocal critics of the war, sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran (news, bio, voting record), R-Miss. ...
Senate Keeps Pullout Date in Iraq War Bill
... in the $122 billion bill, which has yet to be acted upon. The majority defeated an amendment offered by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, that would have removed the date.
Senate votes to support Iraq pullout deadline
The vote was 50 to 48 to reject the amendment, introduced by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Like its counterpart bill in the House, the bill included $20 billion in special ...
Senate votes for Iraq pull-out 50-48
... the provision from a $122 emergency spending bill. Senators voted 50 to 48 to reject the amendment, which was introduced by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Continued at link.
Senate Readies Vote on Iraq Timetable
... House said in a statement shortly before the scheduled vote.Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., led the drive to scuttle the provision. Some Democrats said they would support the non-binding timetable even though they wanted more. "I want...
US Senate Votes 50-48 To Keep Iraq Withdrawal Timeline In War ...
By a 50-48 vote, the US Senate has just voted to keep Iraq withdrawal timeline language in the supplemental appropriations bill, joining the US House which passed it last week. The vote was on Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) amendment to ...
The "Pragmatic" Iraq Supplemental Plan: GOP Senators Will "Win" It ...
The Senate will vote on an amendment - the Cochran Amendment (Thad Cochran is a GOP Senator from Mississippi) to its toothless version of the Iraq supplemental funding bill today. Debate is going on now. ...
And Progressives Go on the Attack Against McConnell
Susin Collins, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Saxby Chambliss, Thad Cochran, Norm Coleman, Larry Craig, Elizabeth Dole, Pete Domenici, Mike Enzi, Lindsay Graham, James Inhofe, Pat Roberts, Jeff Sessions, Ted Stevens, Mark Pryor, ...
Coleman Votes for Victory, Against Tying Commanders Hands
By a vote of 50 to 48, Democrats were able to maintain the micromanaging benchmarks and cut and run date in the funding bill. The amendment defeated today was proposed by Senator Thad Cochran, a [...]
Bringing the Troops Home
I am just going from what I observed on C-SPAN2 and not any official tally, but it appears that Republicans Gordon Smith (OR) and Chuck Hagel (NE) voted against Thad Cochran's amendment to strip troop withdrawals from the Iraq War ...
Bill Action: Introduced: S. 1015: A bill to reauthorize the ...
Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS] introduced this bill. [This event matched these monitors: Active Legislation ]
2007.03.27 Iraq/Surrendercrat Roundup (Updated, bumped)-- Hagel ...
Before the vote, Nelson said he would reject the measure offered up by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. because it strikes several other "critical provisions, including language acknowledging that the situation in Iraq has become a civil ...
McConnell Wants a Veto; Does Reid Have the Votes
Roll Call also covers the anticipated effort of Thad Cochran to eliminate the forced-surrender language, and of Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn to strip earmarks. Allah implies McConnell might be waving a white flag; that he might be ...
Senate Approves Iraq Timeline 50-48, veto threatened
... Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Oregon, vocal critics of the war, sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran (news, bio, voting record), R-Miss. ...
Hagel and Gordon Smith Vote for Iraq Withdrawal Timeline
In a 50-48 vote, proponents of an Iraq withdrawal timeline prevailed against an attempt by Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to rip out that language in the Iraq supplemental spending bill being debated and voted on today. ...
Senate Backs House Timeline For Iraq Withdrawal; Republicans Still ...
Additionally, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a vocal critic of the war, sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. The debate came on legislation that ...
Senate Iraq Vote May Hinge on 2 Votes
Mar 27, 2007 (AP) An upcoming Senate vote on the Iraq war could come ... threats from President Bush and rallied Republicans. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., has proposed striking the ... the president's Iraq policy and Democratic Sen. ...
Senate Votes to Withdraw From Iraq
Ben Nelson to swing behind the measure. Additionally, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a vocal critic of the war, sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss ...
Senate GOP will not block Iraq bill
AP - Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) said Monday he won't block Senate passage of an Iraq war spending bill even if the GOP fails to kill its troop withdrawal deadline because he knows President Bush will veto it. Facing a cli
What Was That You Said Again, Joe?
The ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, announced during the panels markup that he intends to try to strike the provisions, which would mandate the withdrawal of troops from Iraq ...
Why Obama?
Stopping the Genocide in Darfur Senator Obama has been a leading voice in Washington urging the end of genocide in Sudan. He worked with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) on the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, a version of which was signed into law. Senat
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