No Permanent Bases?

On April 27th the Senate passed an amendment to the most recent "Emergency Supplemental" by a unanimous vote of 94-0 that said the following:

SA 3717.
Mr. BIDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 253, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:

PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES IN IRAQ

SEC. 7032. None of the funds made available by title I of this Act may be made available to establish permanent military bases in Iraq or to exercise control over the oil infrastructure or oil resources of Iraq.

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On April 16th, The U.S. Housed passed by voice vote the following amendment to the same "Emergency Supplemental":

H.AMDT.750 (A050)
Amends: H.R.4939
Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] (offered 3/16/2006)
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:

An amendment to prohibit the use of funds from being available to enter into a basing rights agreement between the United States and Iraq.

STATUS:

3/16/2006 4:39pm:
Amendment (A050) offered by Ms. Lee. (consideration: CR H1107-1110; text: CR H1107)
3/16/2006 5:04pm:
On agreeing to the Lee amendment (A050) Agreed to by voice vote.
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Now Senator Cantwell has said (and both Mark Wilson and Dal LaMagna have said they understand from her) that she opposes permanent bases in Iraq. In fact, the above votes indicate that the entire U.S. Senate and a majority in the U.S. House are opposed to such permanent bases.

On the 15th of June the final version of the "Emergency Supplemental" was passed 98-1 in the Senate (republican, Arlan Spector was the only Nay) and 351-67 in the House (with Inslee, McDermott, and Smith voting "Nay").

So here's the thing:The above language about "no permanent bases" had been REMOVED in the final Conference Bill that was passed.

To this day, the ONLY member of the United States Congress that I have heard complain or even mention the removal of this language has been Rep. Lee during the recent farce billed as a debate on Iraq in the U.S. House.

Perhaps Senator Cantwell or one of her newly hired Progressives can tell us what happened to that language, who had the language removed, and why we have not heard any demand to introduce and pass a specific bill to remedy that error on the part of the Congress.

Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue