Senate Debate On Iraq Troop Re-Deployment

The GOP-controlled Senate rejected Democratic calls to start begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by years' end. In an 86-13 vote, the Senate voted against a proposal from some Democrats that would require the administration to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, with redeployments beginning this year. No Republicans voted in favor of the plan. Minutes later, the Senate rejected, by 60-39, another, more popular Democratic proposal, a nonbinding resolution that would call for the administration to begin withdrawing troops, but with no timetable for the war's end. Larry discusses the political ramifications of the Senate votes with Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, LA Times congressional correspondent Maura Reynolds and Bob Cusack, managing editor of "The Hill" newspaper.