Bob Filner: “on rollcall No. 224, on the Melancon Amendment, I was in my Congressional District on official business. Had I been…”

“on rollcall No. 224, on the Melancon Amendment, I was in my Congressional District on official business. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The CHAIRMAN. The pending business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 2 offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The CHAIRMAN. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The CHAIRMAN. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 171, noes 254, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No. 225] AYES--171 Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bean Beauprez Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boswell Brady (PA) Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Costa Costello Crowley Cummings Davis (IL) Davis, Jo Ann DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dingell Doggett Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Engel Eshoo Etheridge Evans Farr Fattah Ford Gingrey Gonzalez Gordon Green, Al Grijalva Gutierrez Hall Harman Hastings (FL) Higgins Hinchey Hinojosa Holt Honda Hooley Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (IL) Jones (OH) Kaptur Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kucinich Langevin Lantos Larson (CT) Le…”