DeMint Twitters Against Senate’s Sunday Vote

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) took not only to the Senate floor but also to his BlackBerry in protest of today’s first Senate vote, held during an atypical Sunday session.

DeMint checked in from the upper chamber on his Twitter feed using the mobile program TwitterBerry, adding a simultaneous web protest of today’s cloture vote on an agriculture omnibus bill.

“On the Senate floor waiting to speak against [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid’s pork laden, omnibus land grab bill,” wrote DeMint on his Twitter page.

The Senate managed cloture in a 66-12 vote on the bill Sunday before adjourning. 20 Senators, almost all Republicans, were no-shows for the weekend vote.

DeMint had blasted Reid for refusing to allow Republican amendments seeking to curtail some of the spending programs in the bill.

Some members of the House had Twittered from debates last year, notably during the debate over the $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. Those lawmakers’ actions had drawn rebuke from some House Democratic leaders, who had threatened members’ ability to post content outside of websites not administered by the Congress.