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Max Baucus: is there time to speak on the debt limit? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is not. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask for…

On the recordMarch 16, 2006
is there time to speak on the debt limit? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is not. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 48, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 54 Leg.] YEAS--52 Alexander Allard Allen Bennett Bond Brownback Bunning Burr Chafee Chambliss Cochran Coleman Collins Cornyn Craig Crapo DeMint DeWine Dole Domenici Enzi Frist Graham Grassley Gregg Hagel Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Kyl Lott Lugar Martinez McCain McConnell Murkowski Roberts Santorum Sessions Shelby Smith Snowe Specter Stevens Sununu Talent Thomas Thune Vitter Voinovich Warner NAYS--48 Akaka Baucus Bayh Biden Bingaman Boxer Burns Byrd Cantwell Carper Clinton Coburn Conrad Dayton Dodd Dorgan Durbin Ensign Feingold Feinstein Harkin Inouye Jeffords Johnson Kennedy Kerry Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln Menendez Mikulski Murray Nelson (FL) Nelson (NE) Obama Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Salazar Sarbanes Schumer Stabenow Wyden The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 47) was passed. Mr. McCONNELL. I move to reconsider the vote.
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Max Baucus
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