BREAKING: Senate Votes to keep Iraq timetable

Historic vote just occurred in the U.S. Senate. By a vote of 50 - 48, the Senate rejected the Cochran amendment to strip out the Iraq troop withdrawal timetable language from the Supplemental appropriation. Bottom line: The Senate just approved withdrawal timetable language for the first time.

It's not perfect. It's still non-binding, but it is a critical vote to change the course of the war. The Senate bill will go to a conference with the House bill that passed last week.

Lieberman and Mark Pryor from Arkansas voted with the Republicans, of course. Oregon's Gordon Smith and Nebraska's Chuck Hagel voted with the Democrats.