The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Texas (Mrs. Hutchison). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 28, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 25 Leg.] YEAS--70 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Hatch Inhofe Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Leahy LeMieux Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--28 Barrasso Bennett Brownback Bunning Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Isakson Johanns Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter NOT VOTING--2 Hutchison Lautenberg The motion was agreed to.
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