[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Pages 20023-20024]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      DISAPPROVING A RULE PROMULGATED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE 
           ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY--MOTION TO PROCEED

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to the 
consideration of S.J. Res. 20.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
proceed to a vote on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 20 which the 
clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 20) disapproving a rule 
     promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency to delist coal and oil-direct utility units 
     from the source category list under the Clean Air Act.


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  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed. The clerk will 
call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Montana (Mr. Burns), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 
Chambliss), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. DeMint), the Senator 
from Florida (Mr. Martinez), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. 
DeMint) would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the 
Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), and the Senator from West 
Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Talent). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 92, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 224 Leg.]

                                YEAS--92

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Clinton
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Burns
     Chambliss
     DeMint
     Inouye
     Kerry
     Martinez
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Ohio is recognized.

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