The Biden-Hagel Resolution has passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The vote was a 12-9 party line vote, except that Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, voted in favor of the resolution.
The Resolution states that “the U.S. strategy and presence on the ground in Iraq can only be sustained with the support of the American people and bipartisan support from Congress…. It is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by escalating U.S. troop presence in Iraq.”
The resolution also calls for strategy that can produce a political settlement in Iraq: “The primary objective of the U.S. strategy in Iraq should be to have the Iraqi political leaders make the political compromises necessary to end the violence.”
Vote AYE were:
Joseph R. Biden
Christopher J. Dodd
John F. Kerry
Russell D. Feingold
Barbara Boxer
Bill Nelson
Barack Obama
Robert Menendez
Benjamin L. Cardin
Robert P. Casey Jr.
Jim Webb
Chuck Hagel
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Norm Coleman
Minnesota
Bob Corker
Tennessee
John E. Sununu
New Hampshire
George V. Voinovich
Ohio
Lisa Murkowski
Alaska
Jim DeMint
South Carolina
Johnny Isakson
Georgia
D
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