[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 25879-25880]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      INCREASING THE STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC DEBT--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the joint resolution 
having been read the third time, the question is on passage of H.J. 
Res. 43, increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.
  Mr. DURBIN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), 
the Senator from New York (Mrs. Clinton), and the Senator from Illinois 
(Mr. Obama) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. LOTT. The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator 
from Kansas (Mr. Brownback) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 42, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 354 Leg.]

                                YEAS--53

     Akaka
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bond
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin

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     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Vitter
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--42

     Alexander
     Allard
     Bayh
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Bunning
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dodd
     Dole
     Ensign
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Lincoln
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Sessions
     Smith
     Tester
     Thune
     Voinovich
     Webb

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Biden
     Brownback
     Clinton
     McCain
     Obama
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 43) was passed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

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