Pictured with Congressman Doggett: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Congresswoman Grace Napolitano, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Jim McGovern, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

Just got these photos from Rep. Lloyd Doggett, taken last night as he and Dem legislators tried to force a simple up-or-down vote on Iraq redeployment from a filibustering Republican senate:

Obstructionist tactics can only delay the inevitable redeployment of our troops from Iraq and a day of reckoning for the deadly blunders of the Bush-Cheney Administration. Tonight we light candles, in hopes that those who employ obstructionist tactics will see the light and allow a vote to bring our troops home.

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This article appears in July 13 • 2007.

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