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“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Bond), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Voinovich). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Franken). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 40, nays 55, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 91 Leg.] YEAS--40 Alexander Barrasso Bayh Bennett Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Cantwell Chambliss Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Snowe Thune Vitter Wicker NAYS--55 Akaka Baucus Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Cardin Carper Casey Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Gregg Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Webb Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--5 Bond Byrd Isakson Lautenberg Voinovich The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 40 and the nays are 55. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is rejected. The point of order is sustained, and the amendment falls. The Senator from Louisiana. Amendment No. 3668”