Until the Vice President agrees to comply with the Democrats’ partisan fishing trip.

A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president’s budget until Cheney’s office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.

At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.

Cheney’s office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch ”agencies.”

The funding cut came as the appropriations panel approved 5-4 along party lines a measure funding White House operations, the Treasury Department and many smaller agencies.

The left is cheering, but it’s premature.  This would still have to pass on the floor of the Senate, and that takes 60 votes to get cloture.  Plus, the House already rejected it.

Just another grand, empty gesture from the Democrats.