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[missxcellophane]

An amendment was passed to stop other women from suffering the same fate as a young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones.  Fours days into working for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, she was drugged and then vaginally and anally gangraped by her co-workers.  When she reported the incident to her employers, they imprisoned her in a crate with armed guards.  Eventually she managed to convince one such guard to lend her a cell phone, so she called her father, leading to her rescue.  Not only are the contractors generally understood to be above the law, but they put it in the fine print of her contract that she could not pursue legal action.  She is not an isolated case. Sen. Al Franken put forth an amendment to make that end.  It passed, but with thirty Republican votes against it.  The senators who voted against it are as follows:

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

I believe I just lost any respect I have ever held for John McCain.