[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 3956-3957]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2007--
                               CONTINUED

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all pending 
amendments on H.J. Res. 20 are withdrawn.
  The clerk will read the resolution for a third time.
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 20) was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Shall the joint resolution 
pass?
  Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. President, 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 assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), 
the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), and the Senator from South Dakota 
(Mr. Johnson) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. LOTT. The following Senator was necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Wyoming (Mr. Thomas).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 15, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Leg.]

                                YEAS--81

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brown
     Bunning
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Isakson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Tester
     Thune
     Vitter
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--15

     Brownback
     Coburn
     DeMint
     Dole
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Graham
     Hagel
     Inhofe
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Smith
     Snowe
     Voinovich
     Warner

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                             NOT VOTING--4

     Biden
     Inouye
     Johnson
     Thomas
  The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 20) was passed.
  Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote, and I move 
to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, may I inquire as to the pending 
business?
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is currently no pending business.
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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