Two Significant Votes

The House passed a veto override yesterday, reversing President Bush's veto of the Water Resources Development Act.  Randy Kuhl voted for the override. As the first reversal in Bush's presidency, this is clearly important, but it was also predictable, since the original vote was an overwhelming a veto-proof majority.  Nevertheless, roughly 25 Republicans who had supported the original bill switched their vote and voted against reversing the veto.

The House also voted to refer Articles of Impeachment against Vice-President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee.  It was pretty much a party-line vote, with the exception of Ron Paul and a couple of other anti-war Republicans voting for, and a couple of "Blue Dog" Democrats voting against.

As usual, these votes and others of interest can be tracked by following the Significant Votes link at the upper right of this page.