Akaka’s clean Carcieri fix calendar vote is today see: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CCAL-112scal-2012-11-26/pdf/CCAL-112scal-2012-11-26.pdf (page 57 405 S. 676)
Need 60 senators voting yes to get this bill on the Senate calendar for a vote on the full bill on Wednesday.
Contact your Senators and request that they say yes to the calendar vote and support this bill as a CLEAN FIX! You can look up your senators’ phone number here: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
At 2:51 pm today the Senate Floor update indicated that: “During his opening remarks on the floor this afternoon, Senator Reid announced that while the Republicans discuss among themselves on what they want to do on the Defense Authorization bill, he intends to move to proceed to S.676, a bill to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes (commonly referred to as the “Carcieri Fix”), and will file cloture on the motion to proceed for a Wednesday cloture vote.” http://democrats.senate.gov/2012/11/26/up-to-2-roll-call-votes-at-530pm-and-schedule-for-rest-of-the-week/
Any details on how the vote turned out?
No lands should be put into a trust by an untrustworthy government.
Was the Carcieri fix cloture motion voted on Monday? Was ti voted up or down? Cannot find answer anywhere.
They did not get to a vote. The Congressional Record says: Mr. REID. “As I indicated this morning, we are trying to work our way through a number of issues. We thought we were going to be able to move toward the Carcieri matter this evening, but we are still negotiating this matter, so we are going to have to do that at some subsequent time.”
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2012-11-26/pdf/CREC-2012-11-26-senate.pdf, page S6891
All land should be returned to Native people.