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I won’t praise them for doing their job, this once, with only a few months to go for Obama’s administration.

Via The Hill.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

The 97-1 vote marks the first time the Senate has mustered enough support to overrule Obama’s veto pen.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was the sole vote to sustain Obama’s veto. Not a single Democrat came to the Senate floor before the vote to argue in favor of Obama’s position.
The House is expected to vote to override Obama’s veto later on Wednesday.

The White House lashed out at the Senate vote, calling it “embarrassing.”

“I would venture to say that this is the single most embarrassing thing that the United States Senate has done, possibly, since 1983,” Obama spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One.

The White House had little chance in preventing the override after Obama used his veto pen on Friday.

The legislation, sponsored by Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), would create an exception in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allowing the victims of terrorism to sue foreign sponsors of attacks on U.S. soil.

It was crafted primarily at the urging of the families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who want to sue Saudi Arabian officials if they are found to have links to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

It passed the Senate and House unanimously in May and September, respectively, but without roll-call votes.

The overwhelming support, the backing of the September 11 families and the election season all contributed to the president’s loss.

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  1. Alain41 says:

    Override of the President’s veto was ’embarrassing’ for the overriders? Hmm, was ‘deplorable’ already taken? Asking for 25 million friends.

  2. idaho_karen says:

    I believe we would not be in this condition today if the Congress had slapped 0bama the FIRST time he stepped out of his Constitutional role and usurped their role. But as we know Congress has no courage.

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