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Joe Biden: I move to waive the relevant sections of the Budget Act on this amendment and ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING…

On the recordJuly 12, 2006
I move to waive the relevant sections of the Budget Act on this amendment and ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is on agreeing to the motion. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 50, nays 50, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 194 Leg.] YEAS--50 Akaka Allen Baucus Bayh Biden Bingaman Boxer Byrd Cantwell Carper Clinton Dayton DeWine Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Harkin Hutchison Inouye Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Obama Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Salazar Santorum Sarbanes Schumer Snowe Specter Stabenow Talent Wyden NAYS--50 Alexander Allard Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burns Burr Chafee Chambliss Coburn Cochran Coleman Collins Conrad Cornyn Craig Crapo DeMint Dole Domenici Ensign Enzi Frist Graham Grassley Gregg Hagel Hatch Inhofe Isakson Kyl Lott Lugar Martinez McCain McConnell Murkowski Nelson (NE) Roberts Sessions Shelby Smith Stevens Sununu Thomas Thune Vitter Voinovich Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this question, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. 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. The amendment falls. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire. Amendments Nos.…
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