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




   CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2007--
                               Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now resume consideration of 
the motion to concur in the House amendments to the Senate amendments 
to H.R. 976, the Children's Health Insurance Act of 2007.
  The motion to concur with the amendments is withdrawn.
  The question is on agreeing to the motion to concur.
  Mr. CONRAD. 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 clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), 
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 67, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 353 Leg.]

                                YEAS--67

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brown
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Clinton
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Grassley
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Tester
     Warner
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--29

     Allard
     Barrasso
     Bennett
     Bunning
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dole
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Graham
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Kyl
     Lott
     Martinez
     McConnell
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich

                             NOT VOTING--4

     Biden
     Brownback
     McCain
     Obama
  The motion was agreed to.
  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am pleased that this bill has passed 
with such a substantial vote.
  This bill now goes to the President. I hope the President will be 
persuaded by the strong bipartisan support this bill has and will sign 
the bill.
  As it customary, I want to thank the staff who have worked so hard to 
produce this bill.
  From the House: Bridgett Taylor, Amy Hall and Andy Schneider.
  From Senator Baucus's staff: Russ Sullivan, Bill Dauster, Michelle 
Easton, and Alice Weiss, and avid Schwartz.
  I would like to thank my staff: Kolan Davis, Mark Prater, Mark Hayes, 
Becky Shipp, Rodney Whitlock, Steve Robinson, Shaun Freiman, and Sean 
McGuire.
  Thanks as well to Senator Hatch's staff, Pattie DeLoatche, and thanks 
to Senator Rockefeller's staff: Jocelyn Moore and Ellen Doneski.
  Finally, I want to extend deep appreciation to the congressional 
support agencies on which Members and our staff rely.
  From the Office of Legislative Counsel, thanks to Ed Grossman, 
Jessica Shapiro, and Ruth Ernst.
  From the Congressional Research Service, thanks to Richard Rimkunas, 
Chris Peterson, Elicia Herz, April Grady, and Evelyne Baumrucker.
  From the Congressional Budget Office, thanks to Director Peter 
Orszag, Tom Bradley, Eric Rollins, and Jeanne De Sa.
  Again, I strongly urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill.

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