If the Southern textile bloc can sew up 34 Senate votes, it can defeat the treaty.
The Senate vote would've raise the country's debt limit by $1.9 trillion.
The Senate voted to proceed with the bill.
On the same day, by a bipartisan majority of 58-41, the Senate voted to support the action.
The Senate voted down just such a plan the day before his big speech.
The Senate voted down a climate change bill a year ago and it was thought it might not attempt to move a vote on the issue again before the Copenhagen talks.
The radicals had failed by one vote. When the Senate voted on the other charges, the result was the same.
Though he has recently shown renewed interest in free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, only the first seems likely to be ready for a Senate vote this year.
Enraged by Entergy's behavior, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 last year against allowing an extension.
Despite objections by the White House, the Senate voted today to cut off aid.
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