History of the Akaka Bill during June 2006 -- Major conservative media blast Akaka bill. Cloture petition introduced June 6, debated June 7, defeated June 8. Postmortems and Speculations

** A CLOTURE PETITION WAS FILED IN THE SENATE ON TUESDAY JUNE 6. THE CLOTURE PETITION WAS DEBATED JUNE 7; AND FURTHER DEBATED AND THEN DEFEATED ON THURSDAY JUNE 8. THE TRANSCRIPTS FROM THOSE DEBATES HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEBSITE AND PLACED ON A DIFFERENT (USER-FRIENDLY) WEBPAGE HERE:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bigfiles40/AkakaHistJune2006SenateActionCongRec.html

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Akaka bill yeas and nays for the cloture motion vote of June 8, 2006 (56 yea, 41 nay, 3 not voting) are displayed here:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bigfiles40/AkakaClotureVoteStats060806.html

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NEWS REPORTS AND COMMENTARIES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FOR JUNE 1-6, 2006 (about 90 pages)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bigfiles40/AkakaHistJune1-62006.html

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NEWS REPORTS AND COMMENTARIES, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, FOR THE THREE CRUCIAL DAYS OF JUNE 7 (Akaka bill cloture petition debate), JUNE 8 (more debate, and then the defeat), and JUNE 9 (grieving the loss, analyzing it, wondering what comes next) [about 130 pages]

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bigfiles40/AkakaHistJuneStartJun72006.html

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AKAKA BILL HISTORY FOR JUNE 10-30, 2006 -- aftermath of cloture defeat; politicians work to dream up Plan B to protect race-based institutions and programs

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bigfiles40/AkakaHistJuneStartJun102006.html

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