MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006

The Oregon Congressional Delegation

Senate: Gordon Smith-R, Ron Wyden-D House: David Wu(1), Greg Walden(2), Earl Blumenauer(3), Peter DeFazio(4), Darlene Hooley(5)

from this loc.gov page S.3930 Title: A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen McConnell, Mitch KY 
cosponsors

House of Representative Vote Results 29-Sep-2006 2:47pm Yea: 250 Nea: 170 Repub Yea: 217 Nea: 7 Demo Yea: 32 Nea: 162

Oregon  Wu: Nea, Walden: Yea, Blumenauer: Nea, DeFazio: Nea, Hooley: Nea

Senate Vote Results 28-Sep-2006 6:37pm Yea: 65 Nea: 34 (1 not voting) Repub Yea: 53 Nea: 1 Demo Yea: 12 Nea: 32 Oregon Smith: Yea Wyden: Nea

From the Washington Post: "President Bush this morning proudly signed into law a bill that critics consider one of the most un-American in the nation's long history.

The new law vaguely bans torture -- but makes the administration the arbiter of what is torture and what isn't. It allows the president to imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant. It suspends the Great Writ of habeas corpus for detainees. It allows coerced testimony at trial. It immunizes retroactively interrogators who may have engaged in torture."

Idaho has two repubilcan senators who both voted yea.Both washington state and california have two democratic senators, all four voted nea. The Republican senator Chaffe from Rhode Island is the one descenting republican.

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