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Haley Stevens: In principle, I am opposed, but as long as it does not violate the Byrd rule, I will not vote against it. I yield back…

On the recordNovember 3, 2005
In principle, I am opposed, but as long as it does not violate the Byrd rule, I will not vote against it. I yield back the time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment numbered 2362. The yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. DURBIN, I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Corzine) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 83, nays 16, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 289 Leg.] YEAS--83 Akaka Baucus Bayh Biden Bingaman Bond Boxer Burns Byrd Cantwell Carper Chafee Chambliss Clinton Coburn Cochran Coleman Collins Conrad Crapo Dayton DeMint DeWine Dodd Dole Domenici Dorgan Durbin Ensign Enzi Feingold Feinstein Frist Graham Grassley Hagel Harkin Hatch Hutchison Inouye Isakson Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerry Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Lott Lugar Martinez McConnell Mikulski Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Nelson (NE) Obama Pryor Reed Reid Roberts Rockefeller Salazar Santorum Sarbanes Schumer Shelby Smith Snowe Specter Stabenow Stevens Talent Thomas Thune Vitter Voinovich Warner Wyden NAYS--16 Alexander Allard Allen Bennett Brownback Bunning Burr Cornyn Craig Gregg Inhofe Kyl Landrieu McCain Sessions Sununu NOT VOTING--1 Corzine The amendment (No. 2362) was agreed to.
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Haley Stevens
Democratic · Michigan

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