The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Bennett) and the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 68, nays 29, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 55 Leg.] YEAS--68 Akaka Alexander Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Bond Boxer Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Burris Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Cochran Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inhofe Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg 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 Wyden NAYS--29 Barrasso Brownback Bunning Chambliss Coburn Corker Cornyn DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Isakson Johanns Kyl Lugar McCain McConnell Nelson (NE) Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--3 Bennett Byrd Crapo The motion was agreed to.
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