[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 15, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2173-S2174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 
                            2007--Continued


                           Amendment No. 3050

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is now 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided on the Santorum amendment.
  The Senator from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, the amendment that was just offered by 
Senator Murray was defeated. I hope my colleagues will support this 
amendment which does not raise the cap but, in fact, expresses a strong 
sentiment, a strong bipartisan sentiment that the CDBG Program should 
be funded more robustly. It is at $1.3 billion. It is offset by the 920 
account. But it does express a very important sentiment that this is a 
high-priority program and that the appropriators should allocate more 
resources than the President did in his budget recommendation.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, it is unfortunate the Senate just 
defeated the amendment that would actually add real money to CDBG and 
allow our communities across the Nation to invest in the critical 
infrastructure to bring hope and opportunity back.
  The amendment we are now going to vote on is a sham, and I refuse to 
be part of a continuing sham that says to all of us that we are going 
to have CDBG money. Our recipients deserve a lot more. This amendment 
is for show, as I quote from the Wall Street Journal of today: `` . . . 
for show since no money has been added above the cap''--leaving us, 
next October, November, in the appropriations bill to either fund CDBG 
or cut transit and Amtrak, which I know is important to many Senators, 
and many other critical housing programs.
  I urge my colleagues to say no and to put a stop to this continuing 
sham of amendments that do nothing for our communities that deserve a 
lot better.
  Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, do I have any time left on my amendment?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.
  The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The yeas and nays have 
been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senator was necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Coleman).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. 
Coleman) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) 
is necessarily absent.
  I further announce that if present and voting, the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) would vote ``nay.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows:

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                      [Rollcall Vote No. 44 Leg.]

                                YEAS--60

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--38

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Coburn
     Conrad
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lott
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Obama
     Reed
     Reid
     Salazar
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Coleman
     Dayton
       
  The amendment (No. 3050) was agreed to.

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