CBS Evening News - 2007-02-17

Name: CBS Evening News - 2007-02-17
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[0:00] Stalemate in the Senate on Iraq. Joey

[0:02] Chen reports on the vote against

[0:04] President Bush's troop surge that fell

[0:06] short. Courting conservatives, Randall

[0:09] Pinkston tracks Republican presidential

[0:11] hopefuls hoping to win over a key

[0:13] constituency. And suburban invaders,

[0:16] Jerry Bowen shows us homeowners

[0:18] resisting the call of the wild in the

[0:20] heart of LA.

[0:25] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:32] Good evening. They came to work on a

[0:34] Saturday, but Democrats in the Senate

[0:36] couldn't pull it off. The Senate voted

[0:38] against advancing a resolution that

[0:40] condemns President Bush's troop surge.

[0:42] Joey Chen has details.

[0:45] It was enough of a spectacle to draw a

[0:48] crowd to the capital on a sunny winter

[0:50] weekend. Imagine senators working on a

[0:53] Saturday.

[0:54] We all know it's rare for the Senate to

[0:56] hold a Saturday vote.

[1:00] But the issue before us is too important

[1:02] to wait.

[1:03] I would argue we're not working. We're

[1:04] having a political

[1:06] uh theatrical debate that does more harm

[1:09] than good.

[1:09] Today's wrangling was over a procedural

[1:12] question, whether to allow a vote on the

[1:14] president's troop surge.

[1:16] There's a lot of talk about supporting

[1:17] the troops.

[1:18] The best way to support the troops is to

[1:20] get the policy right.

[1:22] Some members scurried back from what was

[1:24] to have been a long holiday weekend, and

[1:26] some presidential wannabes bailed out of

[1:28] big campaign appearances. Because though

[1:30] no one thought the measure had a

[1:32] snowball's chance, most senators

[1:34] couldn't risk the political backlash

[1:36] they'd face for not showing up.

[1:38] The leadership decided to have this

[1:39] debate toda