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Clinton Pays Tribute to Sojourner Truth
The Connecticut senator, who trails better-known rivals for the party nomination, said voters gave Democrats power in November to act, not talk as they've done with non-binding resolutions.
"This was debating about debating. This was the House and the Senate at some of its worst. ... I think we missed an opportunity to put our foot down and stop that (proposed increase in troops in Iraq)," he said.
  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, right, and others, stand beside an image of abolitionist Sojourner Truth during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, February 15, 2007. Clinton is the co-sponsor of a new law that recognizes Truth's contributions to U.S. history by requiring that a bust of her be placed in a "suitable, permanent location in the Capitol." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) (Lauren Victoria Burke - AP) 
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Dodd proposed an alternative to the nonbinding resolution, formally known as a sense of the Senate. He called for capping U.S. troops at around 130,000, similar to proposals offered by rivals Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Dodd's proposal failed, was offered as an amendment and again failed.
"We have a sense of the Senate (resolution) on asparagus," Dodd said, "They don't mean a whole lot."
He later told reporters: "This was all clever stuff. But there are kids dying there."
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Associated Press Writers Darlene Superville in Washington and Philip Elliott in Concord, N.H., contributed to this report.
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