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05-SP1556 on Jul 25, 2005

OnTheIssues.org Explanation: This amendment would ban waterboarding at Guantanamo prison. McCain specifies several international treaties which include bans on waterboarding; and cites "regardless of physical location" to include Guantanamo. McCain cites too that this ban is nothing new; but the US has, in fact, been using waterboarding at Guantanamo.

OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: To prohibit cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of persons under the custody or control of the United States Government.

SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Sen. McCAIN: This amendment would prohibit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in the detention of the US Government. The amendment doesn't sound like anything new. That is because it isn't. The prohibition has been a longstanding principle in both law and policy in the United States. All of this seems to be common sense and in accordance with longstanding

American values.

EXCERPTS OF BILL:

Participating counts on VoteMatch question 14.



Democrats participating in 05-SP1556



Republicans participating in 05-SP1556

Lamar Alexander s1oTN Republican Jr Senator
Lincoln Chafee s1oRI Republican Jr Senator
Susan Collins s1oME Republican Jr Senator
Lindsey Graham s1oSC Republican Jr Senator
John McCain s2pAZ Republican incumbent
Gordon Harold Smith s1oOR Republican Jr Senator
Olympia Snowe s1oME Republican Sr Senator
John Warner s1oVA Republican Sr Senator



Independents participating in 05-SP1556



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 0
Republicans: 8
Independents: 0