The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Gregg), and the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 289 Leg.] YEAS--79 Akaka Alexander Barrasso Baucus Begich Bennet Bennett Bingaman Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Bunning Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Grassley Hagan Harkin Hutchison Inouye Johanns Johnson Kerry Kirk Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lugar Manchin McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Thune Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker NAYS--16 Burr Chambliss Coburn Cornyn Crapo DeMint Feingold Graham Hatch Inhofe Isakson LeMieux McCain Nelson (NE) Risch Vitter NOT VOTING--5 Bayh Bond Brownback Gregg Wyden The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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