[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 4593-4594]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      CONDITIONAL RECESS OR ADJOURNMENT OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Republicans did not want to adjourn the 
other day because they wanted another chance to vote on Iraq. The 
majority of the Senate just voted on Iraq and the majority of the 
Senate is against the escalation in Iraq. We have had that other vote 
they have chosen, so now I ask the Senate to turn to the consideration 
of H. Con. Res. 67, the adjournment resolution, and that the Senate 
proceed to vote on passage of the resolution, with no intervening 
action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  Ms. SNOWE. Reserving the right to object.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:
  A resolution (H. Con. Res. 67) providing for a conditional 
adjournment of the House of Representatives and a conditional recess or 
adjournment of the Senate.
  Ms. SNOWE. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is on agreeing to the concurrent resolution.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. 
Johnson), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator 
from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. LOTT. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the 
Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Burr), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from 
Mississippi (Mr. Cochran), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Corker), the 
Senator from Nevada (Mr. Ensign), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), 
the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. 
Kyl), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska 
(Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Specter), the 
Senator from Alaska (Mr. Stevens), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. 
Voinovich).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 47, nays 33, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 52 Leg.]

                                YEAS--47

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Brown
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Clinton
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inouye
     Kerry
     Klobuchar
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     McCaskill
     Menendez
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Rockefeller
     Salazar
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thomas
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                                NAYS--33

     Alexander
     Allard
     Bayh
     Bunning
     Coburn
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dole
     Domenici
     Enzi
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McConnell
     Roberts
     Sessions
     Smith
     Snowe
     Sununu
     Thune
     Vitter
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--20

     Bennett
     Bond
     Brownback
     Burr
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Corker
     Ensign
     Hatch
     Isakson
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     McCain
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Specter
     Stevens
     Voinovich
  The concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 67) was agreed to.
  Mr. CARDIN. I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. TESTER. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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