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Republicans cast all 28 votes against the bill, but there were also five Republicans who voted for it, delivering crucial support to reach the 60-vote threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, led the opposition to the amendment, saying it was irrelevant to the defense bill, to which it was attached, and deserved to be debated at length as stand-alone legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he argued the bill was unnecessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210717042052\/https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/19\/senate-oks-bill-on-hate-crimes\/?feat=home_headlines\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">To continue &#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=866\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Hate Crimes Bill Passes House &#8211; Christian Leaders Partly to Blame <\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/newsletters\/2009\/newsletter20090720.htm#LETTER.BLOCK33\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Senate Vote for &#8220;Hate Crimes&#8221; Sparks Warning <\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LTRP Note: The following is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3544,248,46,4114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgenderism","category-hate-crime-laws","category-politics","category-transgenderism-children-at-risk","wpcat-3544-id","wpcat-248-id","wpcat-46-id","wpcat-4114-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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