Burr’s ironic Web page;
UPDATE: Page has been changed
Posted June 26th, 2007 at 1:23 PM by Jon Ham
Sen. Richard Burr, D-NC R-NC, needs to update his Web page. As the whole world is wanting to know how many senators voted on cloture (stopping debate) on the immigration reform bill today, his Web site has this headline: “Senator Burr Votes Against Ending Debate on Immigration Reform Bill.” You have to click on that story to find that the story is dated June 7, when he did vote against cloture. But today, he didn’t. Below is a screen capture in case they change the page. Click on it for a larger image:
UPDATE: Sen. Burr’s Web page has been changed to eliminate all mention of the immigration bill and the cloture vote. It doesn’t even mention his vote in favor of cloture today. Glad I took that screen cap. (Thanks to Hal Young for alerting me in the comments.)
UPDATE: My inadvertent typo labeling Burr “D-NC” instead of “R-NC” has been corrected, thanks to an alert from the boss in the comments.
June 26th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Yep, it’s changed now.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
All right, I give up. Are you making a subtle point about Burr, or did your trigger finger slip on the partisan label?
June 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
No attempt to make a subtle point. Just a typo.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:46 am
[...] Remember the other day when I pointed out how outdated Sen. Richard Burr’s official Web site was? Well, his Web team is anything but lax today, as clayj has already noted in comments in a previous post. They’ve already got his anti-cloture statement on his Web site: This legislation, if passed, would only worsen the immigration crisis our country is now facing. Fixing our broken immigration system should be a top priority. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if we don’t secure our borders, ten million more illegal immigrants will move into the United States over the next twenty years. This bill as currently written will not fix our immigration system. In the immediate future, we must enforce the laws already on the books. The Senate should pass the reasonable parts of this bill that have broad bi-partisan support. [...]