Senate Joint Resolution 5 (SJR5), a measure co-authored by New Mexico State Senators
Gerald Ortiz y Pino and
John Grubesic, and which calls on the U.S. Congress to impeach George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney for multiple offenses against the U.S. Constitution and violations of the law, this afternoon passed the second of three committees to which it had been assigned in the New Mexico State Senate, by a 3-to-2 vote. The measure will next be heard in the
New Mexico State Senate Judiciary Committee.
You can read New Mexico's Senate Joint Resolution 5 by clicking
here
Voting in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 5 today in the Public Affairs Committee were
State Senator Dede Feldman, Chair of that committee,
State Senator David Ulibarri, recently appointed to the State Senate, and State Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino, co-author of the bill. All three of these Senators are Democrats.
Voting against the measure were two Republican State Senators,
Stuart Ingle and
Steven P. Neville.
Senator Ingle made a motion to table SJR5. That motion failed on a 3-to-3 vote, with the three Democrats who eventually voted for passage of the resolution itself voting against tabling the measure, and Senators Ingle and Neville, joined by
State Senator Gay G. Kernan voting in favor.
Approximately 100 people were present at the Public Affairs Committee meeting, which was held in Room 321 in the
Roundhouse, the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe, and another 50 were outside the room during the proceedings.
State Senator Ortiz y Pino may speak later today with the
Impeachment Channel about the Public Affairs Committee's action in passing Senate Joint Resolution 5.
You can syndicate the
Impeachment Channel to any web page by clicking
here.
You can watch a video of the February 16, 2007, consideration of SJR 5 in the New Mexico State Senate Rules Committee, testimony in support of it by Senators Ortiz y Pino and Grubesic and many members of the public, and its passage on a 5.0 vote, by clicking
here.
