<p>I'm a pro-science independent, but this thing really could influence my party affiliation.</p>
<p>Apparently, here is the Senate vote that killed it. It was also killed in the House of Reps (but I can't find the voting record for that). I'm kinda confused though. Is it the conservatives or the liberals who killed it here? (Senate voting is sooo confusing for me at least). Bumpers (D-AR) voted Nay and he said that "finding the origin of matter is good, but balancing the federal budget is better." So I'd think that he's vote for cancelling funds for the supercollider.</p>
<p>The Democrats are generally seen as pro-science, who want to shell in big bucks for research. And of coure, superconducting supercollider has little to do with defeating communism at this point so I'd expect the Republicans to vote against it. Still... I'm soo confused...</p>
<p>So... looking at the amendment. It says, sponsored by Bumpers. Yet, Bumpers voted Nay. Voting against his own amendment? I'm confused...</p>
<p>Can anyone care to clarify? Kerry voted Nay and he's the one critisizing Bush for Bush's science record. Also important to note is that the extremely liberal senators (Wellstone, Boxer) voted Nay and the extremely conservative ones (Helms, Thurmond) voted Yea.</p>
<p>Just wondering but what is the Superconducting Supercollider?</p>
<p>Also when you say Thurmond, you're not talking about Strom Thurmond are you? Considering he has been dead for almost a year now, I doubt he voted or voiced much of an opinion.</p>
<p>and plus, considering we were in economic recession back then, the vote to kill it was probably done out of necessity. However, since I don't know any more specific details, that's all speculation on my part.</p>
<p>It was a good idea with horrible execution and an even worse ending. First we pour millions of dollars into a hole in the ground in Texas, print a thousand page "summary" of what's going on at the expense of the taxpayers, then give up before we even have a chance to see what happens. Now it's just a hole with mushroom farms inside of it; being kept in the dark and fed dirt like the american taxpayer (good phrase from a book I have...Great Government Goofs). It's frustrating when the gov. can't make up its mind and decides to give up on stuff after throwing money into a pit and leaving it there. Ugh.</p>